An Outbreak of Gastroenteritis Caused by Salmonella indiana

Abstract

THE APPARENT INCREASE of salmonellosis can be attributed in part to an in¬ creasing awareness of these organisms resulting from more extensive surveillance and the devel¬ opment of improved culture and plating media, biochemical differentiation techniques, and methods of isolating salmonellae from clinical and nonclinical material. SalmoneUa indiana is an inf requently occur¬ ring serotype, isolated mostly from poultry in recent years, which has occasionally been the eti¬ ological agent in sporadic outbreaks of human intestinal disease. The serotype was first de¬ scribed in 1955 when it was isolated from a 9month-old girl, ill with vomiting, diarrhea, and fever at the St. Vincent's Hospital in Indianapolis, Ind. This serotype was antigenically characterized by Hajna and associates (1). With few exceptions, its occurrence in the United States has been in States east of the Mississippi River. The National Animal Disease Labora¬ tory in Ames, Iowa, reported a total of 50 isola¬ tions of S. indiana from 1957 to June 30, 1963, from 28 turkeys, 20 chickens, 1 duck, and 1 swine (2). S. indiana was isolated five times in Canada in 1960 from poultry which all originated from the same farm in Ontario (3). There have been no other reports in the literature of this sero¬ type being isolated as late as the end of 1964.

Diversity of Serotype, Genotype, and Antibiotic Susceptibility of Salmonella Prevalent in Pickled Ready-to-Eat Meat

“…With exception of S . Thompson, S. Indiana (20.10%; 44/219) was also detected in our study, and this serotype was first reported in the United States in 1955 (James and Carter, 1967), and has not been commonly reported in other countries. However, in China, S .…”

CTX-M-27 Producing Salmonella enterica Serotypes Typhimurium and Indiana Are Prevalent among Food-Producing Animals in China

“…Additionally, a particular serovar can prevail and emerge within a region for a certain period while being completely absent in other regions. S. enterica serovar Indiana is rarely reported worldwide but there have been large-scale food poisoning outbreaks caused by this serotype in both the USA and Europe ( Price and Carter, 1967 ; Campbell and Eckman, 1975 ). In China, little information about S. enterica serovar Indiana was available until this serotype was obtained from a food animal ( Yan et al, 2010 ) and showed resistance to multiple antimicrobial agents.…”

Highly Drug-Resistant Salmonella enterica Serovar Indiana Clinical Isolates Recovered from Broilers and Poultry Workers with Diarrhea in China

“…China is the second largest producer of broiler chickens in the world (1), and antibiotics have been widely used to prevent and treat frequently occurring enteric infections in broilers, although it has been noted that their effectiveness has decreased significantly in recent years (2). Salmonella enterica serovar Indiana is generally regarded to have a low frequency worldwide, where it has been associated with vomiting, diarrhea, fever, gastroenteritis, and acute cholecystitis in humans in North America and Europe (3)(4)(5) and an outbreak of abortion in ewes in Spain (6). The presence of S. Indiana in patients and retail raw chicken meat has been reported in China since 2009 (2,7,8).…”