Typhoid fever remains a severe public health problem in developing countries. The emergence of resistant typhoid, particularly multidrug-resistant typhoid infections, highlights the necessity of monitoring the resistance characteristics of this invasive pathogen. In this study, we report a typhoid fever outbreak caused by multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi strains with an ACSSxtT pattern. Resistance genes conferring these phenotypes were harbored by a large conjugative plasmid, which increases the threat of Salmonella Typhi and thus requires close surveillance for dissemination of strains containing such genes.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/emergence-and-outbreak-multidrug-resistant-typhoid-fever-china
[2] http://www.nature.com/emi/journal/v5/n6/pdf/emi201662a.pdf
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/meiying-yan
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/xinlan-li3
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/qiaohong-liao-et-al
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/emerging-microbes-and-infections
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/typhoid
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/china
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/micro-organisms
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/waterborne-diseases
