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Wildlife damage to agriculture has increased over the last 20 years in Korea. They will cause damage for various aspects of agriculture, including great damage to the crops by water deer (Hydropotes inermis), wild boar (Sus scrofa) and rodent. Nowadays, the Rural Development Adminstration of Korea (RDA) starts to pay attention to zoonotic microorganisms of wildlife which visit agricultural area, as well as wildlife damage to the crops. Wild mice of Apodemus agrarius, wild boar (Sus scrofa) and water deer (Hydropotes inermis) are very common in South Korea and widely distributed over various agricultural farm area and mountainous forests in South Korea. They will have high possibility to disseminates zoonotic microorganisms which are great threat to farmers’ health. In this study, so, in this study, we collect 756 fecal pellet of mammal (Wild boar, Water dear, Wild cat, raccoon, rodent), birds (magpies, crows, sparrow etc) and environmental sample (soil, water). We detected total 27 different Salmonella strain from 21 (2.78%) individual fecal and 98 shiga toxin E.coli from 91 (10.97%) individual fecal, 4 (0.52%) E.coli. we will introduce distribution map of Salmonella spp. and Shiga toxin Escherichia coli, E.coli O157:H7 which were disseminated from fecal of various wildlife to visit farm area, focusing on fecal-disseminated microorganisms of wild animal.