Volume 11, Number 12—December 2005
Dispatch
Salmonella and Campylobacter spp. in Northern Elephant Seals, California
Table 1
Serotypes and antimicrobial drug resistance* of Salmonella spp. isolated from natal-beach and stranded northern elephant seals, California, 2003–2004
Serotype | No. resistant isolates/total (%) |
|
---|---|---|
Natal-beach seals | Stranded seals | |
Newport | 0/0 | 4/42 (9.5) |
Saint Paul | 0/0 | 0/17 |
Montevideo | 0/0 | 0/15 |
Typhimurium | 0/3 | 0/2 |
Reading | 0/0 | 0/7 |
All serotypes | 0/3 | 4/83 (4.8) |
*Intermediately resistant or resistant to >1 antimicrobial drugs.