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We compared 8,144 Salmonella isolates collected from meat imported to or produced in Denmark, as well as from Danish patients. Isolates from imported meat showed a higher rate of antimicrobial drug resistance, including multidrug resistance, than did isolates from domestic meat. Isolates from humans showed resistance rates lower than those found in imported meat but higher than in domestic meat. These findings indicate that programs for controlling resistant Salmonella spp. are a global issue.
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Farmacorresistência Bacteriana , Carne/microbiologia , Salmonelose Animal/microbiologia , Infecções por Salmonella/microbiologia , Salmonella/efeitos dos fármacos , Salmonella/isolamento & purificação , Animais , Antibacterianos/farmacologia , Bovinos , Dinamarca , Humanos , Testes de Sensibilidade Microbiana , Aves Domésticas , Salmonella/classificação , Sorotipagem , SuínosRESUMO
Molecular typing is an important tool in surveillance and outbreak investigations of human Salmonella infections. In this study, three molecular typing methods were used to investigate the discriminatory ability, reproducibility and the genetic relationship between 110 Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica isolates. A total of 25 serotypes were investigated that had been isolated from humans or veterinary sources in Denmark between 1995 and 2001. All isolates were genotyped by multilocus sequence typing (MLST), pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP). When making genetic trees, all three methods resulted in similar clustering that often corresponded with serotype, although some serotypes displayed more diversity than others. Of the three techniques, MLST was the easiest to interpret and compare between laboratories. Unfortunately the seven housekeeping genes used in this MLST scheme lacked diversity and the ability to discriminate between isolates were higher with both PFGE and AFLP. The discriminatory power of AFLP and PFGE were similar but PFGE fingerprints were both easier to reproduce, interpret and less time-consuming to analyze when compared to AFLP. PFGE is the therefore the preferred molecular typing method for surveillance and outbreak investigations, whereas AFLP is most useful for local outbreak investigations.
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Técnicas de Tipagem Bacteriana , Polimorfismo de Fragmento de Restrição , Salmonella enterica/classificação , Salmonella enterica/genética , Análise de Sequência de DNA , Animais , Sequência de Bases , DNA Bacteriano/análise , DNA Bacteriano/genética , Eletroforese em Gel de Campo Pulsado , Genótipo , Humanos , Dados de Sequência Molecular , SorotipagemRESUMO
Wild animals living close to cattle and pig farms (four each) were examined for verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC; also known as Shiga toxin-producing E. coli). The prevalence of VTEC among the 260 samples from wild animals was generally low. However, VTEC isolates from a starling (Sturnus vulgaris) and a Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus) were identical to cattle isolates from the corresponding farms with respect to serotype, virulence profile, and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis type. This study shows that wild birds and rodents may become infected from farm animals or vice versa, suggesting a possible role in VTEC transmission.
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Animais Selvagens/microbiologia , Infecções por Escherichia coli/veterinária , Escherichia coli/patogenicidade , Ratos/microbiologia , Toxinas Shiga/biossíntese , Estorninhos/microbiologia , Criação de Animais Domésticos , Animais , Aves/microbiologia , Bovinos/microbiologia , Escherichia coli/genética , Infecções por Escherichia coli/microbiologia , Toxinas Shiga/genética , Suínos/microbiologiaRESUMO
OBJECTIVE: To determine interactions between Oesophagostomum spp and Salmonella ser. Typhimurium in pigs. ANIMALS: 30 healthy 5- to 6-week-old pigs. PROCEDURE: Pigs were allotted to 3 groups (n = 10 pigs/group) and treated as follows: group A was given Oesophagostomum dentatum and O quadrispinulatum; group B was given O dentatum, O quadrispinulatum, and S Typhimurium; and group C was given S Typhimurium only. Pigs in groups A and B were trickle infected with Oesophagostomum spp 3 times weekly throughout the study. After 19 days, groups B and C were inoculated once with S Typhimurium. One pig from each group was euthanatized on the day of Salmonella exposure and 2 and 4 days after Salmonella exposure. The remaining pigs were euthanatized on days 16 and 17 after Salmonella exposure. RESULTS: Pigs with dual infections of nematodes and bacteria (group B) excreted significantly higher amounts of S Typhimurium in feces, compared with nematode-free pigs (group C). In addition, group-B pigs excreted S Typhimurium on more days than pigs in group C. Salmonella Typhimurium was detected in the cecum and colon in the majority of pigs in group B, whereas S Typhimurium was only detected in the colon in pigs in group C. Immunohistochemical examination detected S Typhimurium in 7 of 9 pigs in group B but only 2 of 9 pigs in group C. CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE: Interactions between intestinal nematodes and bacteria may play an important role in the dynamics of S Typhimurium infections.