. 2022 Aug 5;133(4):2569–2582. doi: 10.1111/jam.15728

TABLE 2.

Diversity of Salmonella recovered from the individual chicken meat batches imported into England during 2014–2019

Diversity of salmonella isolates	Number of batches with				Total number of batches where ≥2 isolates ^a	% of batches with two or more isolates typed for each diversity level indicated
Diversity of salmonella isolates	2 isolates	3 isolates	4 isolates	5 isolates	Total number of batches where ≥2 isolates ^a
0–5 SNPs (same serovar)	18	3	7	6	34	59.6
6–25 SNPs (same serovar)	3	1	0	0	4	7.0
>25 SNPs (same serovar)	3	5	5	1	14	24.6
2 or more serovars	4	0	1	0	5	8.8
Total	29	9	13	7	57	100

Abbreviations: NA, not applicable; SNP, single nucleotide polymorphism; SLC, single linkage cluster.

^{^a}

In total, isolates from 116 batches were analysed where 57 batches had two or more isolates with SNP typing available.