Diversity of Salmonella serotypes from humans, food, domestic animals and wildlife in New South Wales, Australia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Salmonella is an important human pathogen in Australia and annual case rates continue to increase. In addition to foodborne exposures, cases have been associated with animal and contaminated environment contact. However, routine surveillance in Australia has tended to focus on humans and food, with no reported attempts to collate and compare Salmonella data from a wider range of potential sources of exposure.

Methods

Salmonella data from humans, food, animals and environments were collated from a range of surveillance and diagnostic sources in New South Wales (NSW). Data were categorised to reflect one of 29 sample origins. Serotype diversity was described for each category, and the distribution of serotypes commonly isolated from humans was examined for each samp

SUBMITTER: Simpson KMJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6280480 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature