Multilocus sequence typing supports the hypothesis that cow- and human-associated Salmonella isolates represent distinct and overlapping populations

Serotyping and a multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme, based on the sequencing of three genes (fimA, manB, and mdh), are used to characterize the human and bovine clinical Salmonella isolates obtained from across New York state over the course of 1 year. The results have shown that cattle might be a reservoir for many of the common human disease-associated serotypes and sequence type (ST) that are not associated with avian hosts.