Salmonella infection in calves and other animals

Abstract

In a further study of salmonella infection in animals being slaughtered at meatworks, 6.6% of 1,357 calves and 9.9% of 876 pigs were found to have salmonellae in one or more of the faeces or tissue samples examined. In addition salmonellae were isolated from 32 of 310 calves sampled by nasal swab shortly after slaughter. S. typhimurium was the most common serotype in both calves and pigs, but in pigs S. anatum and S. derby were almost as prevalent.