Emerg Infect Dis

eid

Emerging Infectious Diseases

1080-60401080-6059

Centers for Disease Control

10653572

2627977

Research Article

Molecular typing of multidrug-resistant Salmonella Blockley outbreak isolates from Greece.

Tassios

P. T.

Chadjichristodoulou

Lambiri

Kansouzidou-Kanakoudi

Sarandopoulou

Kourea-Kremastinou

Tzouvelekis

L. S.

Legakis

N. J.

University of Athens, Greece.

Jan-Feb2000

616064

During 1998, a marked increase (35 cases) in human gastroenteritis due to Salmonella Blockley, a serotype rarely isolated from humans in the Western Hemisphere, was noted in Greece. The two dominant multidrug-resistance phenotypes (23 of the 29 isolates studied) were associated with two distinct DNA fingerprints, obtained by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of genomic DNA.