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R E Komijn

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PubMed2003

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

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.

Animals↗
PubMed2002

[Explosive increase in Salmonella java in poultry. Consequences for public health].

In the Netherlands S. Paratyphi B variation Java increased in poultry from less than 2% of all isolates before 1996 up to 40% in 2001. This development in poultry runs in parallel with that in Germany and appears not to occur in other European countries. A German study shows that in the late nineties it concerns isolates of only one multi-resistant clone of Java (in Holland as well) whilst isolates before the middle nineties were genetically much more heterogeneous and sensitive to antibiotics. Although the exposition of humans to contaminated poultry meat is relatively high, human patients with a Java infection are rare. Treatment of poultry flocks with quinolones was about 13% in 2000-2001. Resistance to flumequin of Java increased from 3% between 1996-1999 to 20% between 2000-2002 whilst that of other serotypes in poultry remained about 7%. Java is also fast becoming less sensitive to ciprofloxacin which is the antibiotic of first choice in serious cases of salmonellosis. The ministries of public health, agriculture and the production boards, with their research institutes, together with the poultry meat production chain integrations have recently decided to work together in order to determine the public health importance of the Java epidemic in poultry and finding measures for effective control in the poultry industry.

Animals↗
PubMed1999

Prevalence of Mycobacterium avium in slaughter pigs in The Netherlands and comparison of IS1245 restriction fragment length polymorphism patterns of porcine and human isolates.

A significant increase in the incidence of caseous lesions in the lymph nodes of slaughter pigs prompted a large-scale investigation in five slaughterhouses in The Netherlands. In total, 158,763 pigs from 2,899 groups underwent gross examination. At least one pig with caseous lesions in the submaxillary and/or mesenteric lymph nodes was observed in each of 154 of the 2,899 groups examined (5%). In total, 856 pigs (0.5%) were affected. As many as five pigs in each of 141 of the 154 positive groups (91.5%) had lymph node lesions. Greater numbers of pigs with affected lymph nodes were found in 13 groups (8.5%). Four pigs had lesions in the kidneys, liver, or spleen. Acid-fast bacteria were detected by microscopic examination of 121 of 292 Ziehl-Neelsen-stained smears of caseous lesions (41%). In a follow-up study, Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) bacteria were isolated from 219 of 402 affected lymph nodes (54.2%). Ninety-one of the isolated strains were analyzed by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) typing with insertion sequence IS1245 as a probe. All but 1 of these 91 strains contained IS1245 DNA, indicating that pigs in The Netherlands carried almost exclusively M. avium bacteria and no other bacteria of MAC. Only one pig isolate exhibited the bird-type RFLP pattern. MAC isolates from 191 human patients in The Netherlands in 1996 were also typed by RFLP analysis. Computer-assisted analysis showed that the RFLP patterns of 61% of the human isolates and 59% of the porcine isolates were at least 75% similar to the RFLP patterns of the other group of strains. This indicates that pigs may be an important vehicle for M. avium infections in humans or that pigs and humans share common sources of infection.

Animals↗
PubMed1994

PRRS: effect on herd performance after initial infection and risk analysis.

In early 1991, the Dutch pig industry was struck by Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS). Data from 91 breeding and/or farrow to finish herds that were positive for PRRS were used to investigate the impact of PRRS on productivity and to evaluate the relationship between PRRS and farm and management factors. The farms involved used the CBK management information system. Results show that herd performance was severely affected by PRRS over a period of 4-6 months. A rough economic evaluation, using a fixed price for piglets, indicated that the economic loss on the 91 farms averaged Hfl. 215,- (= 65 pounds) per sow per year due to a decreased number of piglets raised per sow per litter, a prolonged farrowing interval and a higher replacement rate of sows. The analysis of possible risk factors did not reveal major factors that could be helpful in reducing the negative effect of PRRS on Piglets Reared per Sow per Year and on the Economic Index of farms experiencing an outbreak of PRRS.

Animal Husbandry↗
PubMed1992

[Porcine Epidemic Abortion and Respiratory Syndrome (PEARS)-positive and PEARS-negative diagnoses in pig breeding and reproduction farms in The Netherlands using statistical methods].

The diagnoses Porcine Epidemic Abortion and Respiratory Syndrome (PEARS)-positive and PEARS-negative can be made using the following data on herd performance: the average number of stillborn piglets per litter, the average number of live piglets per litter and the average piglet mortality before weaning. Depending on the number of litters used in calculating the averages, the extent to which two out of the three performance data should deviate to arrive at the diagnosis PEARS-positive is given in tables and figures. The same farm will only be diagnosed PEARS-negative if after some time at least two out of the three performance data deviate less than other criteria also provided in tables and figures.

Abortion, Veterinary↗