SALMONELLOSIS

Prepared by:
Kimberly Wen Abdula
Natasha Aira Beltran
Jesalyn Catubig
Salmonellosis
Salmonellosis is the disease caused by any
of more than 2000 salmonella serotypes.
In swine, only a few serotypes cause
disease, usually manifested as septicemia
and/or enterocolitis, sometimes by tissue
localization of infection of various sites.
Etiology or Causative Agent
The primary cause in swine is
Salmonella choleraesuis. Salmonella
enterica is rod-headed, flagellate,
facultative anaerobic, gram-negative
bacterium and a species of the
genus salmonella. A number of its
serovars are serious human
pathogens.
 Transmission
Salmonella is spread by the fecal-oral route and can be
transmitted by;
 food and water
 direct animal contact
 rarely from person-person
CLINICAL SIGNS
Diarrhea frequently results
in emaciation from enteric
disease with Salmonella
Typhimurium (and other
serotypes).

Purple skin discoloration,

pneumonia and rapid death
associated with host-adapted
systematic infection with
Salmonella Choleraesuis.
 Clinical Symptoms
SOWS
 High temperature
 Depression
 Loss of appetite
 Ears, nose and tail congestion (septicemia)
 Pneumonia
 Coughing
 Nervous signs
 Smelly diarrhea (sometimes can have blood
and mucus)
 Death
 Clinical Symptoms
LACTATING PIGLETS
 The disease is not frequent in piglets due to
the passive immunity of colostrum

WEANERS AND GROWERS

 Same clinical signs in sows
 Prevention and Control
 Improve hygiene by ensuring proper cleaning and
disinfection (disease is dose dependent)
 Purchase animals (including breeding stock
replacements) from known negative sources
 Vaccines can be very effective (do have some cross
protection between S. Choleraesuis and Typhimurium)
 Antibiotics can control disease but will not eliminate
the pathogen
 Do not use animal fats in diets
 Control rodents
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