Nosocomial infection of nurselings caused by multiple drug resistant strain of Salmonella typhimurium--utilization of a new typing method based on lysogeny of strains.
During a period of 18 months diarrheal diseases appeared among nurselings in one region of Slovakia. Salmonella typhimurium strains were isolated from 265 cases. The diseased nurselings were kept in a nurseling-home and/or were hospitalized in two city hospitals. The isolated Salmonella typhimurium strains were resistant to ampicillin, carbenicillin, tetracyclin, chloramphenicol, neomycin, kanamycin and sulphonamides, and, carried R-plasmids. The tested strains proved identical by phage typing according to the systems of Felix-Callow and Scholtens. The were lysogenic and reacted in an identical way with indicator strains. The results of tests indicate that the nosocomial infection of nurselings was caused by long-term persistance and spread of a single polyresistant strain of Salmonella typhimurium.
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D001434:Bacteriophage Typing; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000382:microbiology*; D003968:Diarrhea, Infantile / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008242:Lysogeny; D011815:R Factors; D012480:Salmonella Infections / Q000382:microbiology*; D012483:Salmonella Phages; D012486:Salmonella typhimurium / Q000145:classification / Q000187:drug effects; D013449:Sulfonamides / Q000494:pharmacology
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D013449:Sulfonamides