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Volume 20, Number 11—November 2014
Dispatch

ESBL-Producing Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi in Traveler Returning from Guatemala to Spain

Anna FàbregaComments to Author , Nuria Piedra-Carrasco, Fernando Salvador, Virginia Rodríguez, Adrián Sánchez-Montalvá, Anna M. Planes, Israel Molina, and M. Nieves Larrosa
Author affiliations: Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain (J.J. González-López, N. Piedra-Carrasco, F. Salvador, V. Rodríguez, A. Sánchez-Montalvá, A.M. Planes, I. Molina, M.N. Larrosa); Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona (J.J. González-López, N. Piedra-Carrasco, M.N. Larrosa)

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Table

Susceptibility profiles of the CTX-M-15–producing Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi strain from a patient in Spain who had traveled to Guatemala in 2013, compared with profiles of the Escherichia coli recipient strain and the transconjugant strain

Antimicrobial agent(s) MIC, µg/mL
S. enterica ser. Typhi 301812 (donor) E. coli HB101-Nal (recipient) E. coli HB101-Nal TC-301812 (transconjugant)
Ampicillin >256 1.5 >256
Amoxicillin-clavulanate 16 3 16
Piperacillin-tazobactam 3 1 1.5
Cefoxitin 12 3 3
Ceftazidime >256 0.064 8
Cefotaxime >256 0.016 >256
Cefotaxime-clavulanate 0.19 0.016 0.016
Cefepime >256 0.032 24
Aztreonam >256 <0.016 32
Imipenem 0.25 0.38 0.38
Meropenem 0.064 0.023 0.023
Ertapenem 0.064 0.002 0.002
Chloramphenicol 2 2 2
Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole 0.047 0.25 0.25
Nalidixic acid 3 >256 >256
Ciprofloxacin 0.023 0.125 0.125
Azithromycin 4 3 3
Gentamicin 1.5 0.75 3
Tobramycin 24 1 >256
Amikacin 32 2 >256

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