Journal of Hygiene

Table of Contents - 1976 - Volume 77, Issue 01  

Research Article

Salmonellosis in wild mammals

P. W. Jonesa1 and G. I. Twigga2

a1 Institute for Research on Animal Diseases, Compton, Newbury, Berkshire

a2 Department of Zoology, Royal Holloway College, (University of London), Englefield Green, Surrey

Abstract

One thousand two hundred and sixty-nine freeliving, wild mammals, representative of 16 species from estates in Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Surrey, were examined for the presence of salmonellas. Salmonella typhimurium was isolated from 1 and S. dublin from 7 house mice (Mus musculus). There were no isolations from the other species examined. It was concluded that the house-mice infected with S. dublin acquired the organism from experimentally infected cattle.

The wild mammal population does not at present appear to constitute a reservoir for infection of domestic animals.

(Received November 18 1975)

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