Article
Molecular epidemiology of Salmonella Heidelberg in an equine hospital.
Veterinary microbiology - 3 May 2001
Amavisit P, Markham P F, Lightfoot D, Whithear K G, Browning G F
Abstract excerpt
From 1992 to 1997, multi-drug resistant (MDR) Salmonella Heidelberg isolates were cultured from a number of horses hospitalised in a veterinary hospital in Victoria, Australia. To examine the relationships between the cases, 28 isolates from the hospital were compared by pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), IS200 element profiles, antimicrobial resistance patterns, plasmid profiles and phage typing. The PFGE...
Topics
- Animals
- Australia
- Deoxyribonucleases, Type II Site-Specific
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
- Genotype
- Horse Diseases
- Horses
- Hospitals, Animal
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Phenotype