Elsevier

The Lancet

Volume 334, Issue 8660, 19 August 1989, Pages 436-438
The Lancet

Public Health
SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS PHAGE TYPE 4 INFECTION OF BROILER CHICKENS: A HAZARD TO PUBLIC HEALTH

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Abstract

The pericardial fluids and contents of caeca and spleens from 81 broiler chickens that had been condemned at processing factories because of macroscopic pericarditis were examined for Salmonellaspecies. 47 (58%) of these chickens yielded S enteritidisphage type (PT) 4. Viable counts of the organism in fluids from 6 of the most severely affected hearts ranged from 104 to 107 colony-forming units/ml. S enteritidis PT4 was also isolated from 8 of 20 fresh chilled chickens on retail sale. No other serotype of Salmonella or phage type of S enteritidiswas cultured either from the chickens with pericarditis or from the fresh chilled chicken.

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