“…Senftenberg, isolated from four sows, two gilts, two boars, and six weaned pigs, generated an identical PFGE pulsetype (Profile 3), revealing a indistinguishable PFGE pattern between these isolates ( Table 1 and Figure 1). In this sense, pig colonization, in our study, could have occurred by horizontal and vertical transmission, or yet by a combination of vertical and horizontal transmission, which is a permanent cycle of contamination on farms (22,24). It is known that transmission of Salmonella between pigs occurs mainly via the fecal-oral route (38) and therefore horizontal transmission between pigs could be occurring, since all animals shared the same installations during the day (paddocks) and during the night (all categories were confined together).…”