Volume 2, Number 2—April 1996
Dispatch
Application of Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis to an International Outbreak of Salmonella agona
Table
Distribution of Xbal pulsed-field profiles in isolates of Salmonella agona phage type 15 made in the United Kingdom, Israel, USA, Canada, and France, 1993–1995a
Pulsed-field profiles (PFP) | |||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Country | Source | Number studied | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6a | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
United Kingdom | Human | 46 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 26b | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
Snack | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||
Israel | Human | 9 | 9 | ||||||||||||
Snack | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||
United States | Human | 10 | 10 | ||||||||||||
Canada | Snack | 3 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
France | Human | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||||
Total | 78 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 51 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
a Isolates from Israel, the United States, and Canada were made in 1995; of the isolates from France, 3 were obtained in 1994 and 3 in 1995.
b Isolated 25 November 1994 to 17 February 1995.