Phenotypic and genotypic antibiotic resistance patterns in Salmonella Typhimurium and its monophasic variant from pigs in southern Spain

The high incidence of human salmonellosis and multi-drug resistant (MDR) strains of Salmonella Typhimurium (ST) is of concern to global public and animal health. Our research, by means of the broth microdilution method, evaluated the Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) distribution of 12 antimicrobials against a collection of 73 ST and mST and S. typhimurium monophasic variant 4,[5],12:i:- (mST) isolates from slaughtered pigs reared in extensive systems in southern Spain, and also 12 resistance-associated genes or antimicrobial resistance (AMR) determinants using qPCR.