We report emergence of ciprofloxacin-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Kentucky in Canada during 2003-2009. All isolates had similar macrorestriction patterns and were multilocus sequence type ST198, which has been observed in Europe and Africa. Ciprofloxacin-resistant S. enterica serovar Kentucky represents 66% of all ciprofloxacin-resistant nontyphoidal Salmonella sp. isolates observed in Canada since 2003.
Keywords: Canada; Salmonella enterica serovar Kentucky; Salmonella genomic island; antimicrobial resistance; bacteria; ciprofloxacin resistance; multidrug resistance.