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The challenging task to select Salmonella target serovars in poultry: the Italian point of view

According to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) annual report, human salmonellosis is mostly related to consumption of contaminated poultry products. Since 2003 in Europe, the Salmonella serovars considered relevant for human healt...

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Autores principales: Leati, Marta, Zaccherini, Alessandra, Ruocco, Luigi, D'Amato, Stefania, Busani, Luca, Villa, Laura, Barco, Lisa, Ricci, Antonia, Cibin, Veronica
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Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8276318/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34027844
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268821001230
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author Leati, Marta
Zaccherini, Alessandra
Ruocco, Luigi
D'Amato, Stefania
Busani, Luca
Villa, Laura
Barco, Lisa
Ricci, Antonia
Cibin, Veronica
author_facet Leati, Marta
Zaccherini, Alessandra
Ruocco, Luigi
D'Amato, Stefania
Busani, Luca
Villa, Laura
Barco, Lisa
Ricci, Antonia
Cibin, Veronica
author_sort Leati, Marta
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description According to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) annual report, human salmonellosis is mostly related to consumption of contaminated poultry products. Since 2003 in Europe, the Salmonella serovars considered relevant for human health and subject to control in breeding hens of Gallus gallus are: S. Enteritidis, S. Typhimurium (including the monophasic variant), S. Infantis, S. Hadar and S. Virchow. Herein, we investigated the Italian epidemiological situation from 2016 to 2018, comparing Salmonella serovar distributions in humans and poultry, in order to identify the target Salmonella serovars that, if controlled, would potentially have the largest public health impact in Italy. The results showed that control of S. Virchow and S. Hadar does no longer seem to be a priority in Italy and that S. Napoli and S. Derby, which are not included in the group of EU target serovars, are among the most frequent serovars isolated from humans in Italy. While S. Derby has its main reservoir in pigs, S. Napoli does not have a specific reservoir. However, because this serovar is frequently isolated from breeding poultry flocks and is characterised by causing severe human illness, it is a potential target Salmonella serovar in breeding hens of Gallus gallus in Italy.
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spelling pubmed-82763182021-07-14 The challenging task to select Salmonella target serovars in poultry: the Italian point of view Leati, Marta Zaccherini, Alessandra Ruocco, Luigi D'Amato, Stefania Busani, Luca Villa, Laura Barco, Lisa Ricci, Antonia Cibin, Veronica Epidemiol Infect Short Paper According to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) annual report, human salmonellosis is mostly related to consumption of contaminated poultry products. Since 2003 in Europe, the Salmonella serovars considered relevant for human health and subject to control in breeding hens of Gallus gallus are: S. Enteritidis, S. Typhimurium (including the monophasic variant), S. Infantis, S. Hadar and S. Virchow. Herein, we investigated the Italian epidemiological situation from 2016 to 2018, comparing Salmonella serovar distributions in humans and poultry, in order to identify the target Salmonella serovars that, if controlled, would potentially have the largest public health impact in Italy. The results showed that control of S. Virchow and S. Hadar does no longer seem to be a priority in Italy and that S. Napoli and S. Derby, which are not included in the group of EU target serovars, are among the most frequent serovars isolated from humans in Italy. While S. Derby has its main reservoir in pigs, S. Napoli does not have a specific reservoir. However, because this serovar is frequently isolated from breeding poultry flocks and is characterised by causing severe human illness, it is a potential target Salmonella serovar in breeding hens of Gallus gallus in Italy. Cambridge University Press 2021-05-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8276318/ /pubmed/34027844 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268821001230 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Leati, Marta
Zaccherini, Alessandra
Ruocco, Luigi
D'Amato, Stefania
Busani, Luca
Villa, Laura
Barco, Lisa
Ricci, Antonia
Cibin, Veronica
The challenging task to select Salmonella target serovars in poultry: the Italian point of view
title The challenging task to select Salmonella target serovars in poultry: the Italian point of view
title_full The challenging task to select Salmonella target serovars in poultry: the Italian point of view
title_fullStr The challenging task to select Salmonella target serovars in poultry: the Italian point of view
title_full_unstemmed The challenging task to select Salmonella target serovars in poultry: the Italian point of view
title_short The challenging task to select Salmonella target serovars in poultry: the Italian point of view
title_sort challenging task to select salmonella target serovars in poultry: the italian point of view
topic Short Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8276318/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34027844
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268821001230
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