Molecular typing of multidrug-resistant Salmonella Blockley outbreak isolates from Greece.
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.
Tassios
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University of Athens, Greece.
Chadjichristodoulou
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C
Lambiri
M
M
Kansouzidou-Kanakoudi
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A
Sarandopoulou
Z
Z
Kourea-Kremastinou
J
J
Tzouvelekis
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LS
Legakis
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NJ
D016172:DNA Fingerprinting; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D018432:Drug Resistance, Multiple; D016521:Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field; D006115:Greece / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D012475:Salmonella / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics*; D012480:Salmonella Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*