Emerging Infectious Diseases (Feb 2000)

Molecular Typing of Multidrug-Resistant Salmonella Blockley Outbreak Isolates from Greece

  • Panayotis T. Tassios,
  • Christos Chadjichristodoulou,
  • Maria Lambiri,
  • Athina Kansouzidou-Kanakoudi,
  • Zannina Sarandopoulou,
  • Jenny Kourea-Kremastinou,
  • Leonidas S. Tzouvelekis,
  • Nicholas J. Legakis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0601.000111
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 1
pp. 60 – 64

Abstract

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During 1998, a marked increase (35 cases) in human gastroenteritis due to Salmonella Blockley, a serotype rarely isolated from humans in the Western Hemisphere, was noted in Greece. The two dominant multidrug-resistance phenotypes (23 of the 29 isolates studied) were associated with two distinct DNA fingerprints, obtained by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of genomic DNA.

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