First isolation of Salmonella enterica serovar Napoli from wild birds in Italy.
Salmonella enterica serovar Napoli (S. Napoli) is an emerging serovar in Italy. It accounts for 2-4% of all serovars isolated from human infections. The zoonotic origin of this serovar is still unknown and this makes difficult to apply any control intervention. We report here the isolation of S. Napoli from a river nightingale (Cettia cetti, Temminck 1820) which represents the first description of this serovar from wild birds. This finding adds knowledge to the ecology of S. Napoli and addresses further studies aimed to assess the epidemiologic link between S. Napoli isolated from wild birds, food, environmental sources and human infections.
Dipartimento di Ambiente e Connessa Prevenzione Primaria, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy. E-mail: laura.mancini@iss.it.
Laura
L
Mancini
Stefania
S
Marcheggiani
Annamaria
A
D'Angelo
Camilla
C
Puccinelli
Filippo
F
Chiudioni
Flavia
F
Rossi
Elisabetta
E
Delibato
Dario
D
De Medici
Anna Maria
AM
Dionisi
Slawomir
S
Owczarek
Ida
I
Luzzi
D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild; D001717:Birds / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D010865:Pilot Projects; D012480:Salmonella Infections / Q000382:microbiology; D019779:Salmonella enterica / Q000302:isolation & purification*