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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, September 2002, p. 3502-3505, Vol. 40, No. 9
0095-1137/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.40.9.3502-3505.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Persistent Endemicity of Salmonella bongori 48:z35:- in Southern Italy: Molecular Characterization of Human, Animal, and Environmental Isolates

Giovanni M. Giammanco,1* Sarina Pignato,2 Caterina Mammina,1 Francine Grimont,3 Patrick A. D. Grimont,3 Antonino Nastasi,4 and Giuseppe Giammanco2

Dipartimento di Igiene e Microbiologia "G. D'Alessandro," Università di Palermo, I-90127 Palermo,1 Dipartimento "G. F. Ingrassia" Igiene e Sanità Pubblica, Università di Catania, I-95124 Catania,2 Dipartimento di Sanità Pubblica, Università di Firenze, I-50134 Firenze, Italy,4 Unité Biodiversité des Bactéries Pathogènes Emergentes, Institut Pasteur, F-75724 Paris cedex 15, France3

Received 12 April 2002/ Returned for modification 29 April 2002/ Accepted 19 June 2002

From 1984 to 1999, we collected 31 isolates of the rare serovar Salmonella bongori 48:z35:- in southern Italy. Twenty-four of the isolates were from cases of acute enteritis in humans. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis showed that all but one of our isolates were at least 80% similar. Our findings suggest that genetically related S. bongori 48:z35:- strains are endemically circulating in southern Italy.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Dipartimento di Igiene e Microbiologia "G. D'Alessandro", Università di Palermo, Via del Vespro 133, I-90127 Palermo, Italy. Phone: (39) 091 6553663. Fax: (39) 091 343896. E-mail: gmgiamm{at}libero.it.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, September 2002, p. 3502-3505, Vol. 40, No. 9
0095-1137/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.40.9.3502-3505.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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