Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jun 2013)

Ciprofloxacin-Resistant Salmonella enterica Serovar Kentucky in Canada

  • Michael R. Mulvey,
  • David A. Boyd,
  • Rita Finley,
  • Ken Fakharuddin,
  • Stacie Langner,
  • Vanessa Allen,
  • Lei Ang,
  • Sadjia Bekal,
  • Sameh El Bailey,
  • David Haldane,
  • Linda Hoang,
  • Greg Horsman,
  • Marie Louis,
  • Lourens Robberts,
  • John Wylie

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1906.121351
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 6
pp. 999 – 1001

Abstract

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We report emergence of ciprofloxacin-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Kentucky in Canada during 2003–2009. All isolates had similar macrorestriction patterns and were multilocus sequence type ST198, which has been observed in Europe and Africa. Ciprofloxacin-resistant S. enterica serovar Kentucky represents 66% of all ciprofloxacin-resistant nontyphoidal Salmonella sp. isolates observed in Canada since 2003.

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