TY - JOUR N2 - Salmonellosis is a public health concern worldwide and also causes huge losses to the piggery industry. A total of 457 fecal samples were collected from organized and unorganized farms including indigenous and crossbreed piglets of North East India. Salmonella isolates were serotyped, screened for their virulence genes, characterized for drug resistance pattern and representative isolates were cloned and sequenced for their partial length enterotoxin (stn) gene. A total of 8.31% Salmonella were identified with higher prevalence observed in unorganized compared to organized farms and higher detection level in cross breed compared to indigenous piglets. Salmonella typhimurium (65.78%) was found to be the predominant serovar and irrespective of serovars high number of isolates (68.4%) harboured enterotoxin gene. The isolates were multidrug resistant showing highest resistance against cefalexin (77.31%). Sequence analysis of stn gene showed two isolates having diverse sequence compared to other isolates. Our study revealed the significance of Salmonella as important pathogen with zoonotic potential between porcine and human populations. This is probably the first systematic study of Salmonella species associated with piglet diarrhea in India. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/114793/PDF/22.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/114793 PY - 2019 IS - No 4 EP - 797 DO - 10.24425/pjvs.2019.131412 KW - Salmonella KW - enterotoxin KW - sequencing KW - drug resistance KW - piglets A1 - Kylla, H. A1 - Dutta, T.K. A1 - Roychoudhury, P. A1 - Subudhi, P.K. A1 - Lalsiamthara, J. PB - Polish Academy of Sciences Committee of Veterinary Sciences PB - University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn VL - vol.22 DA - 2019.12.27 T1 - Prevalence and molecular characterization of Salmonella species associated with piglet diarrhea in North East India SP - 793 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/114793 T2 - Polish Journal of Veterinary Sciences ER -