Molecular typing of multidrug-resistant Salmonella Blockley outbreak isolates from Greece

P T Tassios; C Chadjichristodoulou; M Lambiri; A Kansouzidou-Kanakoudi; Z Sarandopoulou; J Kourea-Kremastinou; L S Tzouvelekis; N J Legakis

doi:10.3201/eid0601.000111

Molecular typing of multidrug-resistant Salmonella Blockley outbreak isolates from Greece

Emerg Infect Dis. 2000 Jan-Feb;6(1):60-4. doi: 10.3201/eid0601.000111.

Authors

P T Tassios¹, C Chadjichristodoulou, M Lambiri, A Kansouzidou-Kanakoudi, Z Sarandopoulou, J Kourea-Kremastinou, L S Tzouvelekis, N J Legakis

Affiliation

¹ University of Athens, Greece.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

DNA Fingerprinting
Disease Outbreaks*
Drug Resistance, Microbial
Drug Resistance, Multiple
Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
Greece / epidemiology
Humans
Salmonella / drug effects
Salmonella / genetics*
Salmonella Infections / epidemiology*