Title
Analysis of the clonal relationship among clinical isolates of Salmonella enterica serovar Infantis by different typing methods
Date Issued
01 January 2003
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Merino L.
Ronconi M.
Navia M.
Sierra J.
Cech N.
Lodeiro N.
Vila J.
Hospital Clínic
Publisher(s)
Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo
Abstract
Salmonella Infantis has been the second most common serovar in Argentina in the last two years, being isolated mostly from paediatric hospitalised patients. In order to determine the clonal relationship among Salmonella Infantis strains, we examined 15 isolates from paediatric patient faeces in Argentina (12 geographically related and 3 geographically non-related) by using antimicrobial susceptibility, plasmid profiling, repetitive extragenic palindromic (REP) PCR, enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC) PCR, and low-frequency restriction analysis of chromosomal DNA by pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). Four Spanish strains were included as controls of clonal diversity in molecular techniques. Antibiotype and plasmid profile was not useful as epidemiological tools. PFGE and REP-PCR were able to discriminate between Argentinean and Spanish isolates of Salmonella Infantis allowing to detect genetically related strains in three different cities. This finding indicates that a possible spread of a clone of this serovar in the North-eastern Region of Argentina has taken place in 1998.
Start page
119
End page
123
Volume
45
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Enfermedades infecciosas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-0038373386
PubMed ID
Source
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo
ISSN of the container
00364665
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