Molecular elucidation of the evolutionary success of salmonella Kentucky ST198 KU Leuven
Salmonella enterica serovar Kentucky (S. Kentucky) is a common cause of gastro-enteritis. Although resistance to critically important antibiotics for human medicine is rare among Salmonella species, the clonal variant S. Kentucky ST198 poses an exemption. Phylogeographic analysis indicates this clone first emerged in Egypt around 1989, before disseminating into Northern, Southern and Western Africa, and then further to the Middle East, Asia ...