Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jun 2015)

Salmonella enterica Serotype Enteritidis in French Polynesia, South Pacific, 2008–2013

  • Simon Le Hello,
  • Fiona Maillard,
  • Henri-Pierre Mallet,
  • Elise Daudens,
  • Marc Levy,
  • Valérie Roy,
  • Philippe Branaa,
  • Sophie Bertrand,
  • Laetitia Fabre,
  • François-Xavier Weill

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2106.141103
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 21, no. 6
pp. 1045 – 1048

Abstract

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Outbreaks of Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis infections associated with eggs occurred in French Polynesia during 2008–2013. Molecular analysis of isolates by using clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat polymorphisms and multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis was performed. This subtyping made defining the epidemic strain, finding the source, and decontaminating affected poultry flocks possible.

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