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Highly clonal relationship among Salmonella Enteritidis isolates in a commercial chicken production chain, Brazil

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In this study, we described the comparison among pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD), ribotyping, and PCR-ribotyping methods for subtyping Salmonella Enteritidis isolated from an industrial chicken production chain. One hundred and eight S. Enteritidis were isolated at all stages of poultry meat processing plant. These isolates were pheno- and genotypically characterized by using antimicrobial susceptibility test, phage typing, RAPD, PFGE, ribotyping, and PCR-ribotyping. The highest antibiotic resistance rates were observed for enrofloxacin (18.5%) followed by furazolidone (15.7%), cefoxitin (1.8%), ciprofloxacin, and ampicillin with 0.9% each one, while seven isolates (6.4%) were pan-susceptible. Most strains belonged to the globally disseminated phage type PT4 (n = 74; 69.2%). Additionally, we identified strains belonging to phage types PT1 (n = 19; 17.8%) and PT7a (n = 14; 13.1%). Moreover, our results showed that these four molecular methods indicate similar results showing high similarity (≥ 90%) among S. Enteritidis strains, suggesting that these isolates appear to be from a common ancestor being spread at all stages of the poultry production chain. In summary, the combined molecular approaches of these methods remain a suitable alternative to efficiently subtyping S. Enteritidis in the absence of high-resolution genotyping methods and these results may serve as a baseline study for development of mitigation strategies.

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We are indebted to Katia Leani and Lucia Gomes (USP) for the valuable laboratory technical assistance.

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The authors thank the Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) (Grants #2013/07914-8) for the financial support.

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    Daniel F. M. Monte, Cristiano Andrigheto, Vinicius B. Ribeiro, Mariza Landgraf & Maria Teresa Destro

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Monte, D.F.M., Andrigheto, C., Ribeiro, V.B. et al. Highly clonal relationship among Salmonella Enteritidis isolates in a commercial chicken production chain, Brazil. Braz J Microbiol 51, 2049–2056 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42770-020-00372-4

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