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Prevalence of Salmonella in hatchlings in transport boxes immediately after leaving hatcheries in Nigeria.
| Hatchery | Sample site |
Positive |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sources | Number of boxes sampled | Farm | Poultry vendor | Number | (%) |
| Hatchery A | 23 | 7 | 16 | 1 | 4.3 |
| Hatchery B | 31 | 10 | 21 | 2 | 6.5 |
| Hatchery C | 55 | 11 | 44 | 7 | 12.7 |
| Hatchery D | 87 | 29 | 58 | 8 | 9.2 |
| Hatchery E | 24 | 5 | 19 | 2 | 8.3 |
| Hatchery F | 20 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 15.0 |
| Hatchery G | 60 | 14 | 46 | 9 | 15.0 |
| Total | 300 | 91 | 209 | 32 | 10.7 |
