[Carriers of Salmonella among the people of four villages in Abidjan area (Ivory Coast) (author's transl)].

The authors relate the results of a bacteriological investigation carried out among the people of four villages from Abidjan outskirts (about 1,704 inhabitants). They searched for individuals expelling Salmonellas from their faeces. This investigation, which lasted a year enabled, out of 1,754 cultures to isolate 109 strains belonging to various serotypes, four new ones among them. The isolations frequency increases with the rainy season, and has been especially important in one of the villages. Animals expell Salmonellas from their dejections, in a high percentage of cases.