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Volume 30, Number 2—February 2024
Synopsis

Salmonella Vitkin Outbreak Associated with Bearded Dragons, Canada and United States, 2021–2022

Katherine PaphitisComments to Author , Caroline A. Habrun, G. Sean Stapleton, Alexandra Reid, Christina Lee, Anna Majury, Allana Murphy, Heather McClinchey, Antoine Corbeil, Ashley Kearney, Katharine Benedict, Beth Tolar, and Russell O. Forrest
Author affiliations: Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (K. Paphitis, C. Lee, A. Majury, A. Murphy, A. Corbeil); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (C.A. Habrun, G.S. Stapleton, K. Benedict, B. Tolar); Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs, Guelph, Ontario, Canada (A. Reid); Ontario Ministry of Health, Toronto (H. McClinchey); Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (A. Kearney); Public Health Agency of Canada, Guelph (R.O. Forrest)

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Figure 1

Bearded dragon rock cave, source of the environmental isolates that were closely related to the outbreak strain of Salmonella enterica serovar Vitkin found in patients in Ontario, Canada, 2022. The environmental isolates were within 1 and 2 alleles by core-genome multilocus sequence typing to those from the patients.

Figure 1. Bearded dragon rock cave, source of the environmental isolates that were closely related to the outbreak strain of Salmonella enterica serovar Vitkin found in patients in Ontario, Canada, 2022. The environmental isolates were within 1 and 2 alleles by core-genome multilocus sequence typing to those from the patients.

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