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Between November, 2000, and February, 2002, 342 specimens of crane feces were collected from the Izumi Plain in Kagoshima Prefecture for the isolation of Salmonella spp. AlthoughSalmonellaTyphimurium (ST) was isolated from 64 samples (18.7%), no other serotypes were found. Except for one isolate resistant to gentamicin, tests using minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of 12 antibiotics detected no resistant strains among the 64 isolates of this study and among 3 strains isolated in 1997. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) ofXbaI-digested chromosomal DNA showed indistinguishable banding patterns in all 32 isolates tested. These results suggest that ST strains with the PFGE pattern may spread in crane flocks during their annual winter stay on the Izumi Plain.
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