Volume 21, Number 4—April 2015
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Multidrug-Resistant Salmonella enterica Serotype Typhi, Gulf of Guinea Region, Africa
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Figure 1. Characteristics of 50 Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi isolates. The dendrogram was generated by using BioNumerics version 6.6 software (Applied Maths, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium) and shows results of cluster analysis on the basis of XbaI–pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) fingerprinting. Similarity analysis was performed by using the Dice coefficient, and clustering analysis was performed by using UPGMA. CRISPR1, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats 1; MDR, multidrug resistant; AMX, amoxicillin; STR, streptomycin; SXT, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole; CHL, chloramphenicol; TET, tetracycline; SPT, spectinomycin; SSS, sulfamethoxazole. Zaire is the former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Plasmid multilocus sequence typing (pMLST) was performed as described for incN http://pubmlst.org/plasmid/) or incHI1 (4). Plasmid size was estimated by using S1 nuclease PFGE (14). For isolates from Africa, red indicates linage A, blue indicates lineage B, and green indicates lineage C.
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1These authors contributed equally to this article.
2Current affiliation: University of Limoges, Limoges, France.
3Current affiliation: Rockefeller University, New York, New York, USA.
4Current affiliation: Institute Pasteur de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal.