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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 215, Issue -, Pages 31-39Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2015.08.003
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Salmonella; PFGE; MIST; Antibiotic-resistance determinants
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- Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca (MIUR), PRIN [2007 W52X9M]
- Sardinian Region
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Antimicrobial-resistant non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) are an important cause of infection in Africa, but there is a lack of information on their molecular mechanisms of resistance and epidemiology. This study contributes to fill this gap through the characterization by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), multilocus sequence typing (MIST), plasmid profiling and analysis of antibiotic-resistance determinants of 94 Salmonella enterica strains isolated from food in Morocco. PFGE revealed considerable heterogeneity among the strains, showing 32 pulsotypes. MIST of strains representative of the different serovars evidenced 13 sequence types (STs), three of which were newly identified (ST1694, ST1768 and ST1818) and nine not previously reported in Morocco. Thirty-four strains harbored from one to four plasmids, of Incl1 group in S. Mbandaka, IncFIIA in S. Typhimurium, IncL/M in S. Hadar and S. Blockley. For the first time in Morocco an intact Salmonella Genomic Island 1 (SGI1) carrying the resistance genes aadA2,floR, tetG, bla(PSE-1) and sul1 was detected in S. Typhimurium DT104. In serovar Hadar resistance to ampicillin, tetracycline and streptomycin was associated to bla(TEM-1), tetA and strA genes respectively, whereas one mutation in gyrA (Asp87Asn) and one in parC (Thr54Ser) genes conferred resistance to nalidixic acid. These findings improve the information on foodborne Salmonella in Morocco, evidencing the presence of MDR strains potentially dangerous to humans, and provide useful data for future studies. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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