phaidra.vetmeduni.ac.at o:4402 DOI 10.3390/foods13081156 Salmonella in Wild Boar Meat: Prevalence and Risk Assessment in Central Italy (Umbria and Marche Region) A survey was conducted from 2018 to 2023 to assess the presence of Salmonella in 280 hunted wild boar (carcasses after evisceration and skinning, N = 226; liver, N = 258; and fecal samples, N = 174). The overall prevalence was 2.86% (confidence interval 95%, 1.45-5.45%) with five positive samples detected in carcasses, three in the liver, and one in a fecal sample. This prevalence was in line with those found in nearby areas denoting a low number of positive samples. Positive animals were over 24 months of age and weighed, before skinning, 59.00 ± 9.11 Kg and no difference was detected in microbial loads between samples positive and negative for Salmonella (aerobic colony count of 4.59 and 4.66 log CFU/400 cm2, and Enterobacteriaceae count of 2.89 and 2.73 log CFU/400 cm2 (mean values) in positive and negative subjects, respectively). Salmonella Stanleyville was the most frequently isolated serotype. A semiquantitative risk assessment was conducted for the first time in game meat considering two products, meat cuts intended for cooking and fermented dry sausages. Only proper cooking can reduce the risk of ingestion of Salmonella to the minimum for consumers, whereas ready-to-eat dry sausages constitute risk products in terms of foodborne Salmonellosis (risk score of 64 out of 100). eng Game Meat Food Microbiology Risk Analyses Foodborne Pathogens 2025-08-22T09:34:56.451Z LOMv1.0 Author BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Altissimi;Caterina; FN:Caterina Altissimi END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Primavilla;Sara; FN:Sara Primavilla X-ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1271-4807 END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Roila;Rossana; FN:Rossana Roila END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Gavaudan;Stefano; FN:Stefano Gavaudan END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Morandi;Benedetto; FN:Benedetto Morandi END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Di Lullo;Stefania; FN:Stefania Di Lullo END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Coppini;M.; FN:M. Coppini END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Baldinelli;Chiara; FN:Chiara Baldinelli END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Cai;Dong-Jie; FN:Dong-Jie Cai END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Branciari;Raffaella; FN:Raffaella Branciari END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Valiani;Andrea; FN:Andrea Valiani END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Paulsen;Peter; FN:Peter Paulsen X-ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0153-2175 END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Ranucci;David; FN:David Ranucci END:VCARD https://w3id.org/kim/hcrt/scheme https://w3id.org/kim/hcrt/text Textdokument Text LOMv1.0 yes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 application/pdf 665355 https://phaidra.vetmeduni.ac.at/o:4402 https://phaidra.vetmeduni.ac.at/api/object/o:4402/thumbnail LOMv1.0 discipline