Abstract

RONDON-BARRAGAN, Iang S; RODRIGUEZ, Gustavo A  and  MARIN M, Gira A. Determining Salmonella spp. seroprevalence on pig-farms in the Tolima department. Orinoquia [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.1, pp.60-67. ISSN 0121-3709.

Salmonella is a bacterial disease having worldwide distribution; it has an important effect on public health, being one of the diseases which is frequently found in humans and animals, causing large-scale economic loses in the pig-farming sector. The present report was aimed at raising awareness of the current situation regarding Salmonella spp. seroprevalence in the Tolima department. Nine pig-farms distributed throughout the department were thus analysed. Individual blood samples (n=420) were randomly taken from animals in different production phases (initiation, weaning, fattening, reproductive adults), regardless of gender, to be serologically evaluated using commercially available tests (indirect ELISA). The sampled animals did not have clinical signs which were compatibles with salmonella. Salmonella seroprevalence was 36.09%.

Keywords : pigs; Salmonella; seroprevalence; ETA.

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