WHICH MOLECULAR TYPING METHODS FOR SALMONELLA WILL BE USED IN THE NEAR FUTURE?

Salmonellosis is one of the most common causes of foodborne diarrheal disease worldwide. Most of these infections are zoonotic and are transmitted from food animals to humans through contaminated food. An efficient laboratory surveillance system for salmonellosis is therefore crucial. This system would rely on fast typing and subtyping of isolates. Currently, the basic information provided by laboratories is the serotype of theisolates. To allow differentiation among isolates within the most common serotypes, subtyping methods such as phagetyping, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), and Multi Locus Variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) Analysis (MLVA) have been developed and are widely used for outbreak investigation and surveillance despite numerous limitations

• Weill F.-X.

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