Urban rats as carriers of invasive Salmonella Typhimurium sequence type 313, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Dadi FalayLiselotte HardyJacques TanzitoOctavie LunguyaEdmonde BonebeMarjan PeetersWesley MattheusChris Van GeetErik VerheyenDudu AkaibePionus KatualaDauly NgbondaFrançois-Xavier WeillMaria Pardos de la GandaraJan JacobsPublished in: PLoS neglected tropical diseases (2022)
The present study provides evidence of urban rats as potential reservoirs of S. Typhimurium ST313 in an iNTS endemic area in sub-Saharan Africa.