Table. Characteristics of Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi isolates, France and Cameroon, 1996–2013*.

Location	1996–1999	2000–2004	2005–2009	2010–2013
France
No. isolates studied	345	266	627	508
No. isolates acquired in Africa	86	64	155	103
No. (%) MDR†	0	7 (10.9)	25 (16.1)	23 (22.3)
Country of infection for MDR isolates (no.)		Benin (3), Togo (2), Burkina-Faso (1), Cameroon (1)	Cameroon (7), Côte d’Ivoire (4), Burkina-Faso (3), Angola (2), Congo (1), Mali (1), Benin (1), Nigeria (1), Mauritania (1), Togo (1), Central African Republic (1), Guinea (1), not specified (1)	Côte d’Ivoire (7), Guinea (3), Burkina-Faso (3), Cameroon (2), Congo (1), Central African Republic (1), Niger (1), Mali (1), Nigeria (1), Chad (1), Togo (1), Algeria (1)
Yaoundé, Cameroon
No. isolates studied	ND	61	75	49
No. (%) MDR	ND	29 (47.5)	50 (66.6)	37 (75.5)

*MDR, multidrug resistant; ND, not determined. 
†For isolates acquired in Africa.