Volume 16, Number 11—November 2010
Dispatch
Multidrug-Resistant Salmonella enterica Serovar Infantis, Israel
Ohad Gal-Mor
, Lea Valinsky, Miriam Weinberger, Sara Guy, Joseph Jaffe, Yosef Ilan Schorr, Abraham Raisfeld, Vered Agmon, and Israel Nissan
, Lea Valinsky, Miriam Weinberger, Sara Guy, Joseph Jaffe, Yosef Ilan Schorr, Abraham Raisfeld, Vered Agmon, and Israel NissanTable
Antimicrobial drug resistance patterns of Salmonella enterica serovar Infantis isolates, sorted by isolation year, Israel*
| Antimicrobial drug resistance profile | PFGE pattern |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970–2005 |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
Total |
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| I1 | D | I1 | D | I1 | D | I1 | D | ||||||
| Ampicillin, cefuroxime, ceftriaxone, cephalothin, nitrofurantoin, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Ampicillin, cefepime, ceftriaxone, cephalothin, cefuroxime, tobramycin | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Nitrofurantoin | 5 | 5 | |||||||||||
| Nitrofurantoin, tetracycline | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Levofloxacin, nalidixic acid | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Nalidixic acid, nitrofurantoin, tetracycline | 1 | 1 | 37 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 53 | ||||||
| Nalidixic acid, nitrofurantoin, tetracycline, cephalothin | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Nalidixic acid, nitrofurantoin, tetracycline, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 15 | |||||||
| Nalidixic acid, tetracycline, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Nalidixic acid, tetracycline | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Nalidixic acid, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole |
1 |
1 |
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| Sensitive to all tested antimicrobial drugs |
6 |
6 |
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| Total | 16 | 2 | 3 | 47 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 87 | |||||
*PFGE, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis; I1, emerging PFGE pattern; D, different from the emerging pattern.
