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Volume 21, Number 6—June 2015
Dispatch

Salmonella enterica Serotype Enteritidis in French Polynesia, South Pacific, 2008–2013

Simon Le HelloComments to Author , Fiona Maillard, Henri-Pierre Mallet, Elise Daudens1, Marc Levy, Valérie Roy, Philippe Branaa, Sophie Bertrand, Laetitia Fabre, and François-Xavier Weill
Author affiliations: Institut Pasteur, Paris, France (S. Le Hello, F. Maillard, L. Fabre, F.-X. Weill); Direction de la Santé de la Polynésie Française, Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia (H.-P. Mallet, E. Daudens); Centre Hospitalier de Polynésie Française, Papeete (M. Levy); Service du Développement Rural, Papeete (V. Roy); Institut Louis Malarde, Papeete (P. Branaa); Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium (S. Bertrand)

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Table 1

CRISPR-type characteristics of 67 Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis clinical isolates from French Polynesia, 2008–2013, compared with major examples from the Institut Pasteur database*

Country and period of isolation No. isolates Major PFGE types (no.) Phage types available (no.) CRISPR type allele1-allele2 MLVA type (no.)†
French Polynesia
2008 Jan–2013 Aug 52 JEGX01.0004 (13) PT8 (1), PT13a (2) A14-B21 2-10-8-5-2 (20). 2-10-8-5-1 (1), 2-11-8-5-2 (6), 2-9-8-5-2 (5), 2-12-9-5-2 (1), 2-12-5-5-2 (1)
2011 Aug–2012 Feb 15 JEGX01.0004 (4) PT8 (2) A14-B20 2-10-8-6-2 (15)
France
1957–2013 83 XEN-001 (57) PT4 (45), PT1 (10), PT6 (6), PT21 (3), PT14b (1), PT22 (1), PT24 (1), PT34 (1), PT35 (1), PT44 (1) A6-B7 3-11-5-4-1 (6), 3-11-5-6-1 (1), 3-10-5-4-2 (1), 3-10-5-4-1 (1)
2002 10 XEN-001 (10) PT4 (6), PT35 (3), PT6a (1) A8-B7
1956–2014 8 XEN-001 (6) PT4 (6) A7-B7 2-9-4-5-1 (1), 1-8-9-4-1 (4)
1920–2001 7 XEN-001 (4)
XEN-008 (2) PT4 (6)
PT6a (1) A10-B7
1956–2011 54 JEGX01.0004 (42) PT8 (28), PT14b (12), PT13a (1), PT22 (1) A14-B6 2-12-7-5-1 (1)

*All available CRISPR-types, and the spacer content of each, are described in online Technical Appendix 1 (http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/EID/article/21/6/14-1103-Techapp1.xlsx). CRISPR, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. †SENTR7-SENTR5-SENTR6-SENTR4-SE3.

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1Current affiliation: Cellule de l’Institut de Veille Sanitaire en Région Antilles Guyane, Fort de France, Martinique, France.

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