Incidence of Salmonella in imported day-old ducklings. Brazil, 1998-2003

• Autor(a) principal: Ribeiro,SAM
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Outros Autores: Galleti,MCM, Orsi,MA, Ferrati,AR, Mendonça,AO, Doretto Júnior,L, Camillo,SCA, Reischak,D
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Brazilian Journal of Poultry Science (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-635X2006000100006
• topic: Salmonella; imported ducklings; isolation

The occurrence of Salmonella in a samples of 40 imported day-old duckling flocks was assessed from 1998 to 2003 according to the guidelines of the Brazilian National Poultry Health Program (Programa Nacional de Sanidade Avícola-PNSA). The pathogen was recovered from 26 flocks (65.0%). The most common serovars were S. Saintpaul and S. Kottbus. Up to four serovars were isolated from a single flock. Transportation box swabs (82.6%) and yolk sac pool (47.1%) showed the highest and the lowest frequency of Salmonella isolation, respectively. The high percentage of Salmonella isolation from imported day-old ducklings causes concern because of the zoonotic potential of this agent and its economical importance to commercial poultry breeding.