Salmonella Serotypes in Animals and Animal Products in Malaysia over 40 Years, 1980 – 2020 – a Revisit

Salmonella is one of the most important pathogens affecting animal and human health. With more than 2600 serotypes ubiquitous in nature, Salmonella is found worldwide, causing salmonellosis in humans primarily through foodborne. This review highlights Salmonella serotypes belonging to Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica; in brief, the serotyping, nomenclature, host specificity, and typhoidal and non-typhoidal serotypes. It mainly reports on Salmonella isolations in Malaysia over 40 years, particularly from available reports by the Veterinary Research Institute and Regional Veterinary Laboratories under the Department of Veterinary Services, Malaysia. An interesting piece of information about ‘geo-serotypes’ is that one of the serotypes is named Salmonella Malaysia, and possibly three serotypes are named according to three locations in Malaysia