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Appl Environ Microbiol. 1991 January; 57(1): 223-227

Epidemiology of Salmonella sofia in Australia.

Division of Clinical Microbiology, Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide, South Australia.

ABSTRACT

In recent years, the incidence of isolation of Salmonella sofia in Australia has risen from 33% of all poultry isolates in 1982 to a peak of 49% of isolates in 1988. A parallel rise has not been seen in S. sofia isolated from humans. In Israel, however, S. sofia has been commonly isolated from both humans and poultry. We investigated the possibility that the Israeli strains may belong to a different clonal group and express virulence determinants not seen in the Australian isolates, accounting for the apparent differences in the virulence seen within this species. A number of S. sofia isolates from Australian chickens and humans, as well as from Israeli humans and chickens, were compared by using sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis analysis of outer membrane proteins, plasmid profiles, and restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. No reproducible differences could be detected by analysis of outer membrane proteins. A small 6.4-kb plasmid, pIMVS2, was detected in all Australian isolates from chickens but not in the Israeli isolates. Restriction fragment length polymorphism studies with cosmid clones as probes provided the most discrimination among isolates, allowing us to divide them into seven groups. This technique revealed that significant differences exist between Australian and Israeli isolates and provided additional insights into the epidemiology of these Salmonella isolates.