Multidrug-Resistant Salmonella enterica Serotype Typhi, Gulf of Guinea Region, Africa

Maria Pardos de La Gandara (1) , Murielle Baltazar (1) , Antoinette Ngandjio (2) , Kathryn Elizabeth Holt (3, 4) , Elodie Lepillet (1) , María Pardos de La Gándara (5) , Jean-Marc Collard (6) , Raymond Bercion (7) , Ariane Annaïstte Nzouankeu (2) , Simon Le Hello (5) , Gordon Dougan (4) , Marie-Christine Fonkoua (2) , François-Xavier Weill (5)

1 IP - Institut Pasteur [Paris]
2 Centre Pasteur du Cameroun
3 University of Melbourne
4 The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute [Cambridge]
5 CNR-ESS - Centre National de Référence - National Reference Center Escherichia coli, Shigella et Salmonella
6 WIV-ISP - Institut Scientifique de Santé Publique [Belgique] - Scientific Institute of Public Health [Belgium]
7 Institut Pasteur de Bangui

We identified 3 lineages among multidrug-resistant (MDR) Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi isolates in the Gulf of Guinea region in Africa during the 2000s. However, the MDR H58 haplotype, which predominates in southern Asia and Kenya, was not identified. MDR quinolone-susceptible isolates contained a 190-kb incHI1 pST2 plasmid or a 50-kb incN pST3 plasmid.

Domains: Santé publique et épidémiologie; Bacteriology

Maria Pardos de La Gandara, Murielle Baltazar, Antoinette Ngandjio, Kathryn Elizabeth Holt, Elodie Lepillet, et al.. Multidrug-Resistant Salmonella enterica Serotype Typhi, Gulf of Guinea Region, Africa. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2015, 21 (4), pp.655-659. ⟨10.3201/eid2104.141355⟩. ⟨pasteur-01134243⟩