| T1381 |
0-864 |
Epistemic_statement |
denotes |
Within the year 2010, about 6000 bacterial samples from human disease cases were analyzed and among others the following interesting observations with respect to typing of the strains were made: 1) Reduction in occurrence of the formerly leading Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis 2) Increase in occurrence of monophasic Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium strains 3) Increased observation of Salmonella infections in children caused by rare serotypes and the link to reptile presence in households 4) Virulence gene fingerprinting of disease-associated intestinal E. coli and characterization of intermediate E. coli strains which contain virulence genes or plasmids from different pathotypes 5) Work on outbreaks or family-associated cases due to Salmonella (75), E. coli (31, EHEC and EPEC), Campylobacter (10), Shigella sonnei (2) , and Listeria (2) . |
