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Non-human salmonella isolates 2015

29 December 2015

Food environmental testing
Animal testing
Consumer safety

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Annual summary 2015

The Enteric Reference Laboratory confirmed 637 non-human Salmonella isolates in 2015 compared with 729 in 2014.

There was a decrease in the number of:

-  Ovine (128 in 2014 vs. 95 in 2015);

-  Poultry (86 in 2014 vs. 46 in 2015);

-  Environmental isolates (38 in 2014 vs. 11 in 2015).

There was an increase in the number of:

-  Bovine isolates (233 in 2014 vs. 310 in 2015);

-  S. Typhimurium phage type 56 variant isolates (38 in 2014 vs. 56 in 2015);

-  Bovine isolates of S. Bovismorbificans (13 in 2014 vs. 71 in 2015).