Salmonella enterica serotype enteritidis in French Polynesia, South Pacific, 2008-2013.

Simon Le Hello (1) , Fiona Maillard (1) , Henri-Pierre Mallet (2) , Elise Daudens (2) , Marc Levy (3) , Valérie Roy (4) , Philippe Branaa (5) , Sophie Bertrand (6) , Laetitia Fabre (1) , François-Xavier Weill (1)

1 CNR-ESS - Centre National de Référence - National Reference Center Escherichia coli, Shigella et Salmonella
2 Direction de la Santé de la Polynésie Française
3 Centre Hospitalier de Polynésie Française
4 Service du Développement Rural
5 ILM - Institut Louis Malardé [Papeete]
6 WIV-ISP - Institut Scientifique de Santé Publique [Belgique] - Scientific Institute of Public Health [Belgium]

Outbreaks of Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis infections associated with eggs occurred in French Polynesia during 2008-2013. Molecular analysis of isolates by using clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat polymorphisms and multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis was performed. This subtyping made defining the epidemic strain, finding the source, and decontaminating affected poultry flocks possible.

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Santé publique et épidémiologie

Simon Le Hello, Fiona Maillard, Henri-Pierre Mallet, Elise Daudens, Marc Levy, et al.. Salmonella enterica serotype enteritidis in French Polynesia, South Pacific, 2008-2013.. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2015, 21 (6), pp.1045-8. ⟨10.3201/eid2106.141103⟩. ⟨pasteur-01159895⟩