SALMONELLA SPP. IN FREE-RANGING AND FARMED ALLIGATORS (ALLIGATOR-MISSISSIPPIENSIS) FROM TEXAS AND LOUISIANA, USA

Authors
SCOTT T FOSTER BG
Citation
T. Scott et Bg. Foster, SALMONELLA SPP. IN FREE-RANGING AND FARMED ALLIGATORS (ALLIGATOR-MISSISSIPPIENSIS) FROM TEXAS AND LOUISIANA, USA, Aquaculture, 156(1-2), 1997, pp. 179-181
Citations number
9
Journal title
Aquaculture → ACNP
ISSN journal
00448486
Volume
156
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
179 - 181
Database
ISI
SICI code
0044-8486(1997)156:1-2<179:SSIFAF>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
A survey of 71 free-ranging and 29 farmed alligators (Alligator missis sippiensis) for Salmonella was conducted in southeast Texas and south Louisiana (USA) from September 1992 to September 1995. Salmonella spp. were isolated more commonly in indoor farmed animals (20%) than wild animals (2.8%). There was no difference in prevalence between wild adu lt (> 1.83 m) and wild subadult alligators (< 1.83 m). (C) 1997 Elsevi er Science B.V.