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ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY
Volume 49, Issue 7, Pages 2793-2801Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.49.7.2793-2801.2005
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This study was conducted to investigate the occurrence of multiple-antibiotic resistance among 261 clinical isolates of Salmonella enterica serotype Paratyphi B strains collected between 2000 and 2003 through the network of the French National Reference Center for Salmonella. The 47 multidrug-resistant (MDR) isolates identified (18%), were characterized on the basis of the presence of several resistance genes (bla(TEM), bla(PSE-1) bla(CTX-M),floR, aadA2, qacE Delta 1, and sul1), the presence of Salmonella genomic island 1 (SGI1) by PCR mapping and hybridization, and the clonality of these isolates by several molecular (ribotyping, IS200 profiling, and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis [PFGE]) and phage typing methods. The results of PCR and Southern blot experiments indicated that 39 (83%) of the 47 S. enterica serotype Paratyphi B biotype Java MDR isolates possessed the SGI1 cluster (MDR/SGII). Among these 39 MDR/SGII isolates, only 3 contained variations in SGI1, SGI1-B (n = 1) and SGI1-C (n = 2). The 39 MDR/SGI1 isolates showed the same specific PstI-IS200 profile 1, which contained seven copies from 2.6 to 18 kb. Two PstI ribotypes were found in MDR/SGII isolates, RP1 (n = 38) and RP6 (n = 1). Ribotype RP1 was also found in two susceptible strains. Analysis by PFGE using XbaI revealed that all the MDR/SGII isolates were grouped in two related clusters, with a similarity percentage of 82%. Isolation of MDR/SGII isolates in France was observed mainly between the second quarter of 2001 and the end of 2002. The source of the contamination has not been identified to date. A single isolate possessing the extended-spectrum beta-lactamase bla(CTX center dot M center dot 15) gene was also identified during the study.
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