Volume 11, Number 8, August 2005

Multidrug-resistant Salmonella Typhimurium in Four Animal Facilities

Jennifer G. Wright,* Leslie A. Tengelsen,† Kirk E. Smith,‡ Jeff B. Bender,‡ Rodney K. Frank,§ John H. Grendon,¶ Daniel H. Rice,# Ann Marie B. Thiessen,** Catherine Jo Gilbertson,†† Sumathi Sivapalasingam,* Timothy J. Barrett,* Thomas E. Besser,# Dale D. Hancock,# and Frederick J. Angulo*
*Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, Boise, Idaho, USA; ‡Minnesota Department of Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; §University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA; ¶Washington Department of Health, Olympia, Washington, USA; #Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA; **Chambers Creek Veterinary Hospital, Lakewood, Washington, USA; and ††The Gene Poole Memorial Cat Clinic, Bellingham, Washington, USA

Figure 3. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis patterns associated with the Washington state outbreaks, 1999 and 2000. Lanes A and F are standards; lane B is cat, clinic B; lane C is cat, clinic C; lanes D and E are human isolates.(For confidentiality reasons, Washington Department of Health did not identify which human isolates were from which outbreak.) Human and cat isolates are indistinguishable.

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