Salmonellosis in Guinea-Pigs due to the Serotype Weltevreden.

Abstract

The most common species of the Salmonella group associated with disease in guinea-pigs are Salmonella typhimurium and Salmonella enteriditis, Worden (1947). Buxton (1957) names those two serotypes as the most common in rodents and lists nine other species which have been recovered from guinea-pigs.-S. blegdam, S. cholerae suis, S. muenchen, S. new- port, S. oxford, S. poona, S. reading, S. saint- paul and S. worthington. The purpose of this paper is to describe an outbreak of Salmonellosis due to the serotype weltevreden in a laboratory colony of guinea-pigs (Cavia aperea) at the Central Veterinary Laboratory, Kila Kila, Port Moresby.