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Genotypic analysis of multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica Serovar typhi, Kenya
S Kariuki1, C Gilks, G Revathi
1Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya. skariuki@wtrl.or.ke
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|November 15, 2000
Abstract:
We report the emergence in Kenya during 1997-1999 of typhoid fever due to Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi resistant to ampicillin, tetracycline, chloramphenicol, streptomycin, and cotrimoxazole. Genotyping by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of XbaI-digested chromosomal DNA yielded a single cluster. The multidrug-resistant S. Typhi were related to earlier drug- susceptible isolates but were unrelated to multidrug-resistant isolates from Asia.