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Rectal swabs, blood samples, carcass swabs and the whole caecum, tonsils, heart and tongue were collected.<jats:italic>Salmonella<\/jats:italic>spp. was isolated from 30\u00b75% [95% confidence interval (CI) 26\u00b75\u201334\u00b76] of caecal content samples but only 9\u00b76% (95% CI 7\u00b73\u201311\u00b79) of carcass swabs, which was significantly lower than in a UK survey in 2006\u20132007.<jats:italic>S.<\/jats:italic>Typhimurium and<jats:italic>S.<\/jats:italic>4,[5],12:i:- were the most commonly isolated serovars, followed by<jats:italic>S.<\/jats:italic>Derby and<jats:italic>S.<\/jats:italic>Bovismorbificans. The prevalence of<jats:italic>Yersinia enterocolitica<\/jats:italic>carriage in tonsils was 28\u00b77% (95% CI 24\u00b78\u201332\u00b77) whereas carcass contamination was much lower at 1\u00b78% (95% CI 0\u00b77\u20132\u00b78). The seroprevalence of antibodies to<jats:italic>Toxoplasma gondii<\/jats:italic>and PRRSv was 7\u00b74% (95% CI 5\u00b73\u20139\u00b75) and 58\u00b73% (95% CI 53\u00b71\u201363\u00b74), respectively. This study provides a comparison to previous abattoir-based prevalence surveys for<jats:italic>Salmonella<\/jats:italic>and<jats:italic>Yersinia<\/jats:italic>, and the first UK-wide seroprevalence estimates for antibodies to<jats:italic>Toxoplasma<\/jats:italic>and PRRSv in pigs at slaughter.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1017\/s0950268815002794","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,11,20]],"date-time":"2015-11-20T06:06:19Z","timestamp":1447999579000},"page":"1538-1549","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/policypage","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":39,"title":["A prevalence study of<i>Salmonella<\/i>spp.,<i>Yersinia<\/i>spp.,<i>Toxoplasma gondii<\/i>and porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus in UK pigs at slaughter"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"144","author":[{"given":"L. F.","family":"POWELL","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"T. E. 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