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Volume 18, Number 12—December 2012
CME ACTIVITY - Research

Farm Animal Contact as Risk Factor for Transmission of Bovine-associated Salmonella Subtypes

Kevin J. CummingsComments to Author , Lorin D. Warnick, Margaret A. Davis, Kaye Eckmann, Yrjö T. Gröhn, Karin Hoelzer, Kathryn MacDonald, Timothy P. Root, Julie D. Siler, Suzanne M. McGuire, Martin Wiedmann, Emily M. Wright, Shelley M. Zansky, and Thomas E. Besser
Author affiliations: Author affiliations: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA (K.J. Cummings); Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA (K.J. Cummings, L.D. Warnick, Y.T. Gröhn, K. Hoelzer, J.D. Siler, M. Wiedmann, E.M. Wright); Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA (M.A. Davis, T.E. Besser); Washington State Department of Health, Olympia, Washington, USA (K. Eckmann, K. MacDonald); New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA (T.P. Root, S.M. McGuire, S.M. Zansky)

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Table 2

Distribution of Salmonella serovars among 562 patients, Washington, USA, March 1, 2008–March 1, 2010

Serovar No. (%)
Case-patients, n = 87

Typhimurium

 45 (51.7)

Montevideo

 14 (16.1)

Newport

 13 (14.9)

4,5,12:i:–

 9 (10.3)

Dublin

 5 (5.7)

Infantis

 1 (1.1)
Control-patients, n = 428

Enteritidis

 173 (40.4)

Typhimurium

 29 (6.8)

Paratyphi B var. L-tartrate+

 23 (5.4)

Javiana

 11 (2.6)

Montevideo

 11 (2.6)

Stanley

 10 (2.3)

Braenderup

 9 (2.1)

Litchfield

 9 (2.1)

Thompson

 9 (2.1)

4,5,12:i:–

 8 (1.9)

Heidelberg

 8 (1.9)

Muenchen

 7 (1.6)

Senftenberg

 7 (1.6)

Virchow

 7 (1.6)

Agona

 6 (1.4)

Potsdam

 6 (1.4)

Saintpaul

 6 (1.4)

Oranienburg

 5 (1.2)

Other serovars

 84 (19.6)
Excluded patients, n = 47

Typhimurium

 7 (14.9)

Heidelberg

 6 (12.8)

Montevideo

 6 (12.8)

Brandenburg

 4 (8.5)

Oranienburg

 3 (6.4)

Saintpaul

 3 (6.4)

4,5,12:i:-

 2 (4.3)

Infantis

 2 (4.3)

Newport

 2 (4.3)

Panama

 2 (4.3)

1,4,5,12:i:-

 1 (2.1)

Anatum

 1 (2.1)

Enteritidis

 1 (2.1)

Hadar

 1 (2.1)

Mbandaka

 1 (2.1)

Oslo

 1 (2.1)

Sandiego

 1 (2.1)

Uganda

 1 (2.1)

Not typed

 2 (4.3)

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