“…S. Paratyphi B variant Java (76.4%) and S. Heildelberg (22.7%) were the most prevalent serovars isolated from broiler farms in two distinct regions (Cundinamarca and Santander) of Colombia (Donado-Godoy et al, 2012), thus, this serovar might be distributed in broiler farms across the country and its potential association with natural outbreaks of paratyphoid disease reported by the National Institute of Health (INS, 2015), is worthy of investigation. S. Paratyphi B var Java has been isolated from poultry from Netherlands (Van Pelt et al, 2003) and Germany (Dorn et al, 2001), from chicken viscera at two slaughter plants in the state of Zulia, Venezuela (Boscan et al, 2005), from chicken in Belgium (De Jong et al, 2014), and from breeders and broiler farms in Bangladesh (Barua et al, 2013). In Bangladesh, it was also isolated from blood of patients with clinically diagnosed enteric fever at similar proportions to S. Typhi but with higher resistance rates (Afroz et al, 2014), highlighting an increased risk upon its eventual transmission to human.…”