Salmonella enteritidis phage type 4 infection of broiler chickens: a hazard to public health.
The pericardial fluids and contents of caeca and spleens from 81 broiler chickens that had been condemmed at processing factories because of macroscopic pericarditis were examined for Salmonella species. 47 (58%) of these chickens yielded S enteritidis phage type (PT) 4. Viable counts of the organism in fluids from 6 of the most severely affected hearts ranged from 10(4) to 10(7) colony-forming units/ml. S enteridis PT4 was also isolated from 8 of 20 fresh chilled chickens on retail sale. No other serotype of Salmonella or phage type of S enteritidis was cultured either from the chickens with pericarditis or from the fresh chilled chicken.
Rampling
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Clinical Microbiology and Public Health Laboratory, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.
Anderson
J R
JR
Upson
R
R
Peters
E
E
Ward
L R
LR
Rowe
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B
D000818:Animals; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D002645:Chickens / Q000382:microbiology*; D004739:England; D005511:Food Handling / Q000379:methods; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D010493:Pericarditis / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000662:veterinary; D011201:Poultry Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D011634:Public Health; D012307:Risk Factors; D012478:Salmonella Food Poisoning / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000662:veterinary; D012481:Salmonella Infections, Animal / Q000382:microbiology*; D012477:Salmonella enteritidis / Q000145:classification / Q000187:drug effects / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014852:Wales
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents