Salmonella Yoruba: A rare serotype revealed through genomic sequencing along the farm-to-fork continuum of an intensive poultry farm in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Salmonella enterica is a zoonotic pathogen of worldwide public health importance. We characterised Salmonella isolates from poultry along the farm-to-fork continuum using whole genome sequencing (WGS) and bioinformatic analyses. Three multilocus sequence types (MLSTs), i.

A Public Health Insight into in Poultry in Africa: A Review of the Past Decade: 2010-2020.

Poultry is a cheap source of animal protein and constituent of diets in Africa. Poultry can serve as a reservoir for and cause food-borne infections in humans. This review describes contamination of food, poultry, and the farming environment, antimicrobial resistance profiles, and serotypes of , as well as the farming systems, antimicrobial use (AMU), hygiene, and husbandry conditions used to rear poultry in Africa.

Molecular Epidemiology of in Poultry in South Africa Using the Farm-to-Fork Approach.

The presence of the zoonotic pathogen in the food supply chain poses a serious public health threat. This study describes the prevalence, susceptibility profiles, virulence patterns, and clonality of from a poultry flock monitored over six weeks, using the farm-to-fork approach. was isolated using selective media and confirmed to the genus and species level by real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) of the and genes, respectively.