Emerging Infectious Diseases (Apr 2015)

Multidrug-Resistant Salmonella enterica Serotype Typhi, Gulf of Guinea Region, Africa

  • Murielle Baltazar,
  • Antoinette Ngandjio,
  • Kathryn Elizabeth Holt,
  • Elodie Lepillet,
  • Maria Pardos de la Gandara,
  • Jean-Marc Collard,
  • Raymond Bercion,
  • Ariane Nzouankeu,
  • Simon Le Hello,
  • Gordon Dougan,
  • Marie-Christine Fonkoua,
  • François-Xavier Weill

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2104.141355
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 21, no. 4
pp. 655 – 659

Abstract

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We identified 3 lineages among multidrug-resistant (MDR) Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi isolates in the Gulf of Guinea region in Africa during the 2000s. However, the MDR H58 haplotype, which predominates in southern Asia and Kenya, was not identified. MDR quinolone-susceptible isolates contained a 190-kb incHI1 pST2 plasmid or a 50-kb incN pST3 plasmid.

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