Identification of Salmonella Bredeney Resistant to Third-Generation Cephalosporins in Saudi Arabia.

ABSTRACT: The rapidly increasing prevalence and spread of antibiotic-resistant Salmonella worldwide have become a thorny problem that poses a serious threat to human health. It is speculated that antibiotic abuse, frequent traveling, and mass gatherings accelerate this threat. To explore this hypothesis, we investigated 13 Salmonella isolates from Medina, Saudi Arabia and 15 from China as the control group using typical methods of serotype identification, antibiotic resistance tests, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), and multi-locus sequence typing (MLST). Our results indicated that the isolates from China showed greater serotype diversity and a higher antimicrobial resistance rate, which was consistent with results from other studies in China. In contrast, the Saudi Arabian iso

SUBMITTER: Al Kraiem AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6879462 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature