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Salmonellosis in wild birds feeding at sewage treatment works

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

C. W. Plant
C. W. Plant
Affiliation:
Public Health Laboratory, Whipps Cross Hospital, Leytonstone, LondonE11 1NR
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Between June 1976 and August 1977 faeces were collected from 599 wild British birds caught during ringing operations at two sewage treatment works in south-east England. Samples were incubated with selenite-F broth to detect the presence of Salmonella. Salm. anatum was isolated from one bird, a Dunnock Prunella modularis an incidence of O.17 % of the total birds examined and 3.23 % of the Dunnocks. Comparisons are drawn with previously reported studies and it is suggested that sewage treatment works play little part in the transmission of Salmonella infections to wild birds feeding there.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 81 , Issue 1 , August 1978 , pp. 43 - 48
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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