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Table 2 Antimicrobial resistance and travelling.

From: Multilocus Variable-Number Tandem-Repeat Analysis, Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis, and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Patterns in Discrimination of Sporadic and Outbreak-Related Strains of Yersinia enterocolitica

Resistance profile

Suspected outbreak YE 4/O:3 (n = 22)

Sporadic YE 4/O:3 (n = 75)

Sporadic YE 3/O:3 (n = 2)

Sporadic YE 2/O:9 (n = 5)

AMP CHL STR SUL NAL

-

3 (100%)*

-

-

AMP CHL STR SUL TET

12 (0%)

5 (40%)

-

-

AMP CHL STR SUL TET MEC

-

-

1 (100%)

-

AMP CHL STR SUL

1 (0%)

5 (80%)

-

-

AMP CHL STR SUL MEC

-

-

1 (100%)

-

AMP SUL

-

1 (100%)

-

-

AMP STR

-

1

-

-

AMP MEC

-

-

-

-

AMP

9 (0%)

61 (28%)

-

5 (0%)

  1. Antimicrobial resistance profiles of the sporadic Y. enterocolitica strains isolated in Finland in 2006 and suspected outbreak strains from 2003-2004 and related travel information.
  2. * The percentage of the patients who had reported having traveled abroad before getting ill is in the parenthesis.