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Rivista trimestrale di Sanità Pubblica Veterinaria edita dall'Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise ‘G. Caporale’

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2011 - Volume 47 (2), April-June
   
 
Marco Selmi, Simonetta Stefanelli, Stefano Bilei, Rita Tolli, Luigi Bertolotti, Paola Marconi, Stefano Giurlani, Pier Giorgio De Lucia, Gianfranco Ruggeri & Ambrogio Pagani  
Contaminated commercial dehydrated food as source of multiple Salmonella serotypes outbreak in a municipal kennel in Tuscany 183-190
       

Summary
The authors describe a large outbreak of canine salmonellosis in a municipal kennel in Tuscany. During the outbreak, 174 samples of ‘diarrhetic’ and ‘normal’ faeces and two batches of commercial dehydrated dog food were cultured for pathogenic bacteria. The results of 25, out of a total of 41 dogs (60.9%) revealed at least one faecal sample as being positive for Salmonella; incidence per sampling ranged from 12.5% to 34%. Nine of 10 samples of dehydrated food were positive. Ten totally different serotypes were isolated from dry food and faeces: the results of the pulsed-field gel electrophoresis referred to similarity between the Salmonella Montevideo, Muenster and Worthington isolates recovered from both the food and canine faecal samples.

Keywords
Canine, Dog, Italy, Kennel, Mantel test, PFGE, Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, Salmonella, Salmonellosis.


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