Prevalence of S. typhimurium isolated from fresh chicken samples collected from different local markets in Najaf province during April to October 2012

Salmonella typhimurium is one of most importance serovars associated with human disease and commonly reported from poultry in developing countries therefore this study amid to analysis S. typhimurium distribution in locally freshly chicken samples in Najaf province. A total of 1440 fresh chicken samples were collected from local markets in Najaf city during April to October 2012 to detect the prevalence of Salmonella typhimurium in fresh different parts of chicken. The results of S. typhimurium prevalence showed the gizzard chicken food sample was get highest percentage (43.45%) followed with liver (39.90%) where the meat appeared the lowest percentage (38.46%). The effect of season variation in liver samples was gave highest Prevalence of S. typhimurium in summer season that reached (46.42%) followed by it in autumn (32.85%) while the lowest Prevalence was shown in sprig 28.5% with differ between three season records. while in meat it was high spread in spring and autumn that reached to (64.28%) and (50%) respectively comparison with it in summer season that reduced (4.76%). In gizzard was observed in seasons of summer 49.18% and autumn (40.15%) where reduced in spring to (28.57%).