TABLE 3.
Manual ribotyping of S. enterica serotype Enteritidis isolates for comparison of isolates from sporadic cases with strains associated with travel in 1999
| Sample sourcea | Travel destination(s) (yr) | PT | Pattern by PFGE with:
|
PS (RP) ribotype | ERIC PCR type | No. of isolates | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XbaI | SmaI | ||||||
| NS | Thailand | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 (6) | 1 | 1 |
| NS, ON | Dominican Republic | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| NS | Dominican Republic | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| PEI | Dominican Republic | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 (11) | 1 | 2 |
| PEI | Sporadicb | 4 | 1 | NDc | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| BC, ON | Sporadicb | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| ON | Sporadicb (1998) | 4 | 1 | ND | 6 | 1 | 1 |
| NS | Jamaica, Cuba | 5a | 12 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 2 |
a
See footnote a of Table 1 for province name abbreviations.
b
These isolates were not associated with travel outside Canada.
c
ND, not determined.