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Volume 31, Number 10—October 2025

CME ACTIVITY - Research

Reptile Exposure in Human Salmonellosis Cases and Salmonella Serotypes Isolated from Reptiles, Ontario, Canada, 2015–2022

Katherine PaphitisComments to Author , Alexandra Reid, Hannah R. Golightly, Janica A. Adams, Antoine Corbeil, Anna Majury, Allana Murphy, and Heather McClinchey
Author affiliation: Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (K. Paphitis, J.A. Adams, A. Corbeil, A. Majury, A. Murphy); Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness, Guelph, Ontario, Canada (A. Reid, H.R. Golightly); Ontario Ministry of Health, Toronto (H. McClinchey)

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Age distribution of confirmed and probable sporadic locally acquired human salmonellosis case-patients who reported reptile or amphibian contact, by reptile type (n = 513), in study of reptile exposure among human cases and Salmonella serotypes isolated from reptiles, Ontario, Canada, 2015–2022. Reptile types reported by each case-patient were not mutually exclusive; thus, a case might be reported under >1 reptile type. The proportion of case-patients by age group is presented separately for each reptile type (i.e., percentages by age group for each reptile type sum to 100%).

Figure 1. Age distribution of confirmed and probable sporadic locally acquired human salmonellosis case-patients who reported reptile or amphibian contact, by reptile type (n = 513), in study of reptile exposure among human cases and Salmonella serotypes isolated from reptiles, Ontario, Canada, 2015–2022. Reptile types reported by each case-patient were not mutually exclusive; thus, a case might be reported under >1 reptile type. The proportion of case-patients by age group is presented separately for each reptile type (i.e., percentages by age group for each reptile type sum to 100%).

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