Abstract:
The increasing role played by domestic and wild fowls in infecting human food
has determined us to carry out a study on the etiology and frequency of paratiphic infections in
fowls. A number of 102 fowls were necropsied, of which 43 from the A enterprise and 61 from
the B enterprise. In the A enterprise, 18 fowls (43.9%) have been diagnosed positively, in
comparison with the B enterprise with 22 positively diagnosed fowls (36.06%). The
bacteriological determinations, performed from ovarian follicles, resulted in nine Salmonella
enteritidis strains and three Salmonella typhimurium strains, in comparison with liver
determination that revealed two (9.07%) Salmonella enteritidis strains and one (4.58%)
Salmonella typhimurium strain.
