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Volume 10, Number 12—December 2004
Dispatch

Animal-to-Human Transmission of Salmonella Typhimurium DT104A Variant

Susan W.M. Hendriksen*Comments to Author , Karin Orsel*, Jaap A. Wagenaar*, Angelika Miko†, and Engeline van Duijkeren*
Author affiliations: *Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands; †Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany

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Table

Three Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium DT 104A isolates from a boy, a pig, and a calf on a Dutch farm, with MIC values for antimicrobial drugs

Antimicrobial drug MIC (μg/mL)a
Porcine strain Bovine strain Human strain
Tetracycline >32 R >32 R >32 R
Sulfamethoxazole >512 R >512 R >512 R
Spectinomycin 32 S 32 S 32 S
Chloramphenicol 8 S 8 S 8 S
Florfenicol 8 S 8 S 8 S
Streptomycin 8 S 32 R 16 I
Ampicillin 2 S 2 S 2 S
Neomycin <2 S <2 S <2 S
Amoxycillin-clavulanic acid <2/1 S <2/1 S <2/1 S
Nalidixic acid <4 S 8 S <4 S
Gentamicin <1 S <1 S <1 S
Trimethoprim >32 R >32 R >32 R
Colistin sulfate <4 S <4 S <4 S
Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole >8/152 R >8/152 R >8/152 R
Ciprofloxacin <0.03 S <0.03 S <0.03 S
Ceftiofur 1 S 1 S 1 S
Kanamycin <4 S 8 S <4 S

aThe categories susceptible (S), intermediate (I), or resistant (R) were assigned on the basis of breakpoints recommended by the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards and the Danish Integrated Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring and Research Programme (11,12).

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