鶏肉のSalmomella sofia汚染について

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Salmonella organisms were isolated from 1.9% of the chickens kept on a poultry farm and 51.9% of the feces scattered in a chicken house. Of the strains isolated on the farm, 98.3% belonged toSalmonella sofia. This type was detected also from dressing, packing, and processing plants of chicken at a high frequency, or as high as 94.7% from a certain dressing plant.
From the chicken meat shops examined, S. sofiawas not isolated in 1969, but was at a rate of 15.1 and 42.3% in 1970 and 1971, respectively. The isolated.S. sofiapossessed such biochemical properties as identical with those of subgenus II of Kauffmann and a monophasic organism with an antigenic structure of 4, 12: b. Of the strains isolated, 97.9% were resistant to some drugs, mostly to streptomycin (50mcg/ml).