Human infections due to Salmonella Blockley, a rare serotype in South Africa: a case report

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Thandubuhle Gonose1,2, Anthony M Smith1,3, Karen H Keddy1,3, Arvinda Sooka1, Victoria Howell4, Charlene Ann Jacobs5, Sumayya Haffejee4, Premi Govender6
1Centre for Enteric Diseases (CED), National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) of the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa
2Centre for Enteric Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Gauteng, South Africa
3Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
4Department of Microbiology, Greys Pathology Laboratory, NHLS, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
5Division of Surveillance, Outbreak Response and Travel Health, NICD, NHLS, South Africa
6KwaZulu Natal Department of Health, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

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Infections due to nontyphoidal Salmonella have increased worldwide over the last couple of decades. Salmonella enterica serotype Blockley (Salmonella Blockley) infections is associated with chickens and is a rarely isolated serotype in human infections in most countries. We report a case of human infections due to Salmonella Blockley in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa in 2011. Three African males (aged 4, 14 and 16) presented to a clinic with diarrhoea, stomach cramps and headache. They started experiencing signs of illness a day after they consumed a common meal, consisting of meat, rice and potatoes. Stool specimens from the patients cultured Salmonella Blockley. The strains showed an indistinguishable pulsed-field gel electrophoresis pattern. This is the first recorded case of human infections due to Salmonella Blockley in South Africa.

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