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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, February 2000, p. 614-619, Vol. 66, No. 2
0099-2240/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Molecular Characterization of Irish Salmonella enterica Serotype Typhimurium: Detection of Class I Integrons and Assessment of Genetic Relationships by DNA Amplification Fingerprinting

M. Daly,1 J. Buckley,2 E. Power,3 C. O'Hare,4 M. Cormican,4 B. Cryan,5 P. G. Wall,6 and S. Fanning1,*

Molecular Diagnostics Unit, Cork Institute of Technology, Bishopstown,1 Veterinary Department, County Hall,2 Regional Veterinary Laboratory, Department of Agriculture and Food,3 and Department of Medical Microbiology, Cork University Hospital, Wilton,5 Cork, Department of Bacteriology, National University of Ireland, Galway,4 and Food Safety Authority of Ireland, Dublin 1,6 Ireland

Received 24 May 1999/Accepted 5 November 1999

Salmonella enterica is among the principal etiological agents of food-borne illness in humans. Increasing antimicrobial resistance in S. enterica is a cause for worldwide concern. There is concern at present in relation to the increasing incidence of human infection with antimicrobial agent-resistant strains of S. enterica serotype Typhimurium, in particular of phage type DT104. Integrons appear to play an important role in the dissemination of antimicrobial resistance genes in many Enterobacteriaceae including S. enterica. In this study the antimicrobial susceptibilities and phage types of 74 randomly collected strains of S. enterica serotype Typhimurium from the Cork region of southern Ireland, obtained from human, animal (clinical), and food sources, were determined. Each strain was examined for integrons and typed by DNA amplification fingerprinting (DAF). Phage type DT104 predominated (n = 48). Phage types DT104b (n = 3), -193 (n = 9), -195 (n = 6), -208 (n = 3), -204a (n = 2), PT U302 (n = 1), and two nontypeable strains accounted for the remainder. All S. enterica serotype Typhimurium DT104 strains were resistant to ampicillin, chloramphenicol, streptomycin, Sulfonamide Duplex, and tetracycline, and one strain was additionally resistant to trimethoprim. All DT104 strains but one were of a uniform DAF type (designated DAF-I) and showed a uniform pattern of integrons (designated IP-I). The DT104b and PT U302 strains also exhibited the same resistance phenotype, and both had the DAF-I and IP-I patterns. The DAF-I pattern was also observed in a single DT193 strain in which no integrons were detectable. Greater diversity of antibiograms and DAF and IP patterns among non-DT104 phage types was observed. These data indicate a remarkable degree of homogeneity at a molecular level among contemporary isolates of S. enterica serotype Typhimurium DT104 from animal, human, and food sources in this region.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Molecular Diagnostics Unit, Cork Institute of Technology, Bishopstown, Cork, Ireland. Phone: (353-21) 326 235. Fax: (353-21) 545 343. E-mail: sfanning{at}cit.ie.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, February 2000, p. 614-619, Vol. 66, No. 2
0099-2240/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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