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Some aspects of the epidemiology of equine salmonellosis
Author(s) -
BEGG AP,
JOHNSTON KG,
HUTCHINS DR,
EDWARDS DJ
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
australian veterinary journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.382
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1751-0813
pISSN - 0005-0423
DOI - 10.1111/j.1751-0813.1988.tb14463.x
Subject(s) - serotype , epidemiology , asymptomatic carrier , veterinary medicine , salmonella , horse , asymptomatic , medicine , biology , virology , surgery , paleontology , genetics , bacteria
SUMMARY: A survey of 2 horse populations was done to detect the number of asymptomatic faecal excretors of Salmonella sp. 1201 faecal samples from 250 horses hospitalised at the University of Sydney were cultured. Three serotypes, S. fyphimufium (4 horses), S. anaturn (2) and S. fennessee (1) were isolated from 7 horses (2.8%).None was detected in 75 mares similarly examined at a thoroughbred stud farm. In retrospect, S. fyphimurium was also the most common (70%) of the 19 serotypes recovered from 171 horses with clinical salmonellosis seen at Camden, 1969 to 1986. Forty cases occurring since 1983 were reviewed in detail; the mortality rate was high (60%) and an increased proportion was due to S. bovis‐morbificans. Five horses developed salmonellosis while hospitalised and it was usually impossible to be certain whether these cases developed from the carrier state into overt disease or resulted from infections acquired in hospital.