Emerging Infectious Diseases (Oct 2007)

Multidrug-Resistant Salmonella Typhimurium, Pacific Northwest, United States

  • Margaret A. Davis,
  • Thomas E. Besser,
  • Kaye Eckmann,
  • J. Kathryn MacDonald,
  • Donna Green,
  • Dale D. Hancock,
  • Katherine N.K. Baker,
  • Lorin D. Warnick,
  • Yesim Soyer,
  • Martin Wiedmann,
  • Douglas R. Call

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1310.070536
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 10
pp. 1583 – 1586

Abstract

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We compared human and bovine isolates of Salmonella enterica using antimicrobial-drug resistance profiles and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. From 2000 through 2006, we observed an increase in a novel multidrug-resistant clone of S. Typhimurium with no recognized phage type. This clone may represent an emerging epidemic strain in the Pacific Northwest.

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