Salmonella surveillance annual summary 1967

This report summarizes the results of the fifth year (December 31, 1966-December 29, 1967) of the Salmonella Surveillance Program jointly established by the National Communicable Disease Center (NCDC) and the Association of State and Territorial Epidemiologists and Laboratory Directors. The bulwark of the program is the weekly reporting of isolations of salmonellae submitted by all fifty states, the District of Columbia, the Salmonella Reference Center-Beth Israel Hospital, New York City, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Animal Disease Laboratory, Ames, Iowa, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.I. Introduction -- II. Materials and methods -- III. Summary -- IV. Reports the States: A. Human; B. Nonhuman -- V. Special Reports: A. Epidemic Patterns of Salmonella new-brunswick in the United States, 1963-1967; B. Nonfecal isolations of Salmonellae.196