EMERGENCE OF AN UNUSUAL SEROTYPE - ABOUT 25 SALMONELLA-KENTUCKY IN HOPITAL-PRINCIPAL-OF-DAKAR

The laboratory of Biology of Hopital Principal reports the unusual eme rgence of S. kentucky in neonatologics and pediatrics. 25 cases were f ound for 9 months. The infants were 0 to 2.5 years old. The clinical f eatures were various and often serious : lethal evolution occurred in 6 cases, mong them 2 cases were directly the consequence of Salmonella infection. The bacteriologic identification did not make any problems and the complete serotypy was given to do at Institut Pasteur of Daka r. Antibioresistance profiles were worrying with presence of high-leve l penicillinase : extension to 1st generation cephalosporins was found in 16 cases and extension to 3rd generation cephalosporins was found in 16 cases and extension to 3rd generation cephalosporins in 5 cases.