Explosive increase of Salmonella Java in poultry in the Netherlands: Consequences for public health

W van Pelt; H van der Zee; W J B Wannet; A. W van de Giessen; D. J Mevius; N M Bolder; R E Komijn; Y T H P van Duynhoven

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Explosive increase of Salmonella Java in poultry in the Netherlands: Consequences for public health
W van Pelt¹ , H van der Zee² , W J B Wannet³ , A. W van de Giessen⁴ , D. J Mevius⁵ , N M Bolder⁶ , R E Komijn ⁷ , Y T H P van Duynhoven¹
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Affiliations: ¹ Centrum voor Infectieziekten Epidemiologie (CIE, Centre for Infectious Diseases Epidemiology), RIVM, The Nertherlands ¹ Centrum voor Infectieziekten Epidemiologie (CIE, Centre for Infectious Diseases Epidemiology), RIVM, The Nertherlands ² Keuringsdienst van Waren Oost (KvW, Food Inspection Department East), Zutphen, The Netherlands ³ National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Diagnostic Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Perinatal Screening, Bilthoven, the Netherlands ⁴ Microbiologisch Laboratorium voor Gezondheidsbescherming (MGB, Microbiology Laboratory for Health Protection), RIVM, The Netherlands ⁵ Central Institute for Animal Disease Control, CIDC-Lelystad, The Netherlands ⁶ Institute for Animal Science and Health, ID-Lelystad, The Netherlands ⁷ Rijksdienst voor de keuring van Vee en Vlees (RVV, National Inspection Service for Livestock and Meat), The Netherlands

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Citation style for this article: van Pelt W, van der Zee H, Wannet W J B, van de Giessen A. W, Mevius D. J, Bolder N M, R E Komijn , Y T H P van Duynhoven. Explosive increase of Salmonella Java in poultry in the Netherlands: Consequences for public health. Euro Surveill. 2003;8(2):pii=398. https://doi.org/10.2807/esm.08.02.00398-en

Abstract

In the Netherlands Salmonella Paratyphi B variant Java increased in poultry from less than 2% of all isolates before 1996 to 60% in 2002. Despite exposure to contaminated meat is high, human patients with Java infection are rare (0.3% of all isolates). However, 50% of the human isolates showed PFGE profiles identical to the poultry clone. Resistance to flumequin in S. Java increased from 3% between 1996-2000 to 19% in 2001, and 39% in 2002, while that of other serotypes in poultry remained at about 7%. S. Java is also fast becoming less sensitive to ciprofloxacin.