Volume 13, Number 3—March 2007
Research
Tandem Repeat Analysis for Surveillance of Human Salmonella Typhimurium Infections
Mia Torpdahl*
, Gitte Sørensen†, Bjørn-Arne Lindstedt‡, and Eva Møller Nielsen*
, Gitte Sørensen†, Bjørn-Arne Lindstedt‡, and Eva Møller Nielsen*Table 1
Phage type distribution for all isolates with a phage type abundance >1% of the total number of isolates*
| Most common phage types | No. isolates (% of total) | No. PFGE types | No. isolates with most common PFGE type (%) | No.MLVA types | No. isolates with most common MLVA type (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 104 | 173 (17.0) | 11 | 125 (72) | 84 | 34 (20) |
| 120 | 161 (15.8) | 24 | 65 (40) | 36 | 40 (25) |
| 12 | 153 (15.0) | 14 | 130 (85) | 47 | 37 (24) |
| 193 | 60 (5.9) | 26 | 21 (35) | 28 | 20 (33) |
| U302 | 37 (3.6) | 17 | 8 (22) | 28 | 6 (16) |
| 170 | 34 (3.3) | 6 | 22 (65) | 15 | 7 (21) |
| 208 | 19 (1.9) | 6 | 10 (53) | 6 | 10 (53) |
| 44 | 15 (1.5) | 2 | 14 (93) | 4 | 10 (67) |
| 41 | 14 (1.4) | 8 | 4 (29) | 10 | 3 (21) |
| 1 | 13 (1.3) | 8 | 5 (38) | 11 | 2 (15) |
| 135 | 12 (1.2) | 3 | 6 (50) | 8 | 3 (25) |
| 40 | 12 (1.2) | 1 | 12 (100) | 6 | 4 (33) |
| 66 | 11 (1.1) | 3 | 8 (73) | 8 | 3 (27) |
| NT | 116 (11.3) | 36 | 33 (28) | 49 | 31 (27) |
| RDNC | 106 (10.4) | 45 | 25 (24) | 70 | 11 (10) |
| Others | 83 (8.2) | – | – | – | – |
| All isolates | 1019 (100) | 148 | – | 373 | – |
*PFGE, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis; MLVA, multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis.
