Human infections due to Salmonella Blockley, a rare serotype in South Africa: a case report

BACKGROUND: Infections due to nontyphoidal Salmonella have increased worldwide over the last couple of decades. Salmonella enterica serotype Blockley (Salmonella Blockley) infections is associated with chickens and is a rarely isolated serotype in human infections in most countries. CASE PRESENTATIO...

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Autores principales: Gonose, Thandubuhle, Smith, Anthony M, Keddy, Karen H, Sooka, Arvinda, Howell, Victoria, Jacobs, Charlene Ann, Haffejee, Sumayya, Govender, Premi
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3502097/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23050633
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-562
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author Gonose, Thandubuhle
Smith, Anthony M
Keddy, Karen H
Sooka, Arvinda
Howell, Victoria
Jacobs, Charlene Ann
Haffejee, Sumayya
Govender, Premi
author_facet Gonose, Thandubuhle
Smith, Anthony M
Keddy, Karen H
Sooka, Arvinda
Howell, Victoria
Jacobs, Charlene Ann
Haffejee, Sumayya
Govender, Premi
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description BACKGROUND: Infections due to nontyphoidal Salmonella have increased worldwide over the last couple of decades. Salmonella enterica serotype Blockley (Salmonella Blockley) infections is associated with chickens and is a rarely isolated serotype in human infections in most countries. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of human infections due to Salmonella Blockley in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa in 2011. Three African males (aged 4, 14 and 16) presented to a clinic with diarrhoea, stomach cramps and headache. They started experiencing signs of illness a day after they consumed a common meal, consisting of meat, rice and potatoes. Stool specimens from the patients cultured Salmonella Blockley. The strains showed an indistinguishable pulsed-field gel electrophoresis pattern. CONCLUSION: This is the first recorded case of human infections due to Salmonella Blockley in South Africa.
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spelling pubmed-35020972012-11-21 Human infections due to Salmonella Blockley, a rare serotype in South Africa: a case report Gonose, Thandubuhle Smith, Anthony M Keddy, Karen H Sooka, Arvinda Howell, Victoria Jacobs, Charlene Ann Haffejee, Sumayya Govender, Premi BMC Res Notes Case Report BACKGROUND: Infections due to nontyphoidal Salmonella have increased worldwide over the last couple of decades. Salmonella enterica serotype Blockley (Salmonella Blockley) infections is associated with chickens and is a rarely isolated serotype in human infections in most countries. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of human infections due to Salmonella Blockley in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa in 2011. Three African males (aged 4, 14 and 16) presented to a clinic with diarrhoea, stomach cramps and headache. They started experiencing signs of illness a day after they consumed a common meal, consisting of meat, rice and potatoes. Stool specimens from the patients cultured Salmonella Blockley. The strains showed an indistinguishable pulsed-field gel electrophoresis pattern. CONCLUSION: This is the first recorded case of human infections due to Salmonella Blockley in South Africa. BioMed Central 2012-10-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3502097/ /pubmed/23050633 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-562 Text en Copyright ©2012 Gonose et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Gonose, Thandubuhle
Smith, Anthony M
Keddy, Karen H
Sooka, Arvinda
Howell, Victoria
Jacobs, Charlene Ann
Haffejee, Sumayya
Govender, Premi
Human infections due to Salmonella Blockley, a rare serotype in South Africa: a case report
title Human infections due to Salmonella Blockley, a rare serotype in South Africa: a case report
title_full Human infections due to Salmonella Blockley, a rare serotype in South Africa: a case report
title_fullStr Human infections due to Salmonella Blockley, a rare serotype in South Africa: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Human infections due to Salmonella Blockley, a rare serotype in South Africa: a case report
title_short Human infections due to Salmonella Blockley, a rare serotype in South Africa: a case report
title_sort human infections due to salmonella blockley, a rare serotype in south africa: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3502097/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23050633
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-562
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