Bacteria Isolations from Broiler and Layer Chicks in Zambia

Table 2

Bacterial isolations from chick mortality cases 1995–2008.

Bacteria isolations	Year													Totals	%
	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Total CM cases	135	123	167	169	112	56	48	109	78	58	38	32	26	973	100
Escherichia coli	112	96	101	122	86	44	38	81	51	39	21	16	16	823	84,58
Salmonella gallinarum	72	44	67	42	31	15	27	65	22	15	15	19	15	449	46,15
Salmonella typhimurium		1		3			2	2		1		2		11	1,13
Salmonella enteritidis			2	6		3	12		6		1			30	3,08
Salmonella dublin		2		1				1						4	0,41
Salmonella species	12	10	21	2	19	7	2	8	3		1		1	86	8,84
Proteus species	23	36	33	46	34	19	15	23	7	10	2	8	6	262	26,93
Proteus morgani	1		3	8		3				2	1			18	1,85
Proteus urabilis			3					2				3		8	0,82
Psedomonus aeroginosa	8	6	2	10	5	6	1	1	6	2	3	1		51	5,24
Klebsiella species	1	2	1	3	1	1	1	2	1	2	1	1	1	18	1,85
Klebsiella ozanenae	2											2		4	0,41
Moraxiella species	1	2	3		2		2	1		4	1			16	1,64
Streptococcus species	11	2	4	1		1					2			21	2,16
Staphylococcus species	3	2								3	3			11	1,13
Actinobacillus species	2													2	0,21
Actinobacillus anitratus		2												2	0,21
Anthracoids	7	2												9	0,92
Shigella species		1							2		2			5	0,51
Bordetella parapertusis	1													1	0,10
Yeast cells	16	13	20	9	6	17	4	6	10	8	1	5	2	117	12,02
Enterobacter species		3			2				3				2	10	1,03
Corybacteria species	1						1							2	0,21