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Provedor de dados: | Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia
País: | Brazil
Título: | Factors associated with fecal-shedding of Salmonella spp by horses on US operations
Autores: | Losinger,W.C.; Traub-Dargatz,J.L.; Garber,L.P.; Fedorka-Cray,P.J.; Ladely,S.; Ferris,K.E.; Morgan,K.
Data: | 2002-04-01
Ano: | 2002
Palavras-chave: | Equine operations; National survey; Risk factor analysis; Logistic regression.
Resumo: | In a cross-sectional national study that included 972 operations with &gt; 3 horses on 1/1/98 in 28 states in the USA, 8,417 fecal specimens were collected from horses and cultured to test for the presence of Salmonella spp. Operations were characterized as Salmonella spp-positive if at least one fecal specimen tested positive for Salmonella spp. Percentages of Salmonella spp-positive operations were computed by management and other factors (collected from operation-level questionnaires) that were hypothesized to be related to fecal shedding of Salmonella spp. A logistic-regression model was constructed to identify factors associated with horses’ shedding Salmonella spp in feces on an operation. The odds of an operation being Salmonella spp positive increased as the number of resident horses increased. In addition, the following factors were found to be associated with increased odds of an operation being Salmonella spp positive: horses were used primarily for breeding; operation cleanliness was characterized as poor by the data collector; and new resident equids had been added to the operation without routine quarantine.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-09352002000200001
Editor: | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Escola de Veterinária
Relação: | 10.1590/S0102-09352002000200001
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia  v.54 n.2 2002
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess