The 1990s saw considerable change in the Medicaid program. At the beginning of the decade, Medicaid was still primarily a program that provided health care coverage to persons receiving cash assistance under the Aid to Families with Disabled Children (AFDC) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs, although expansions of eli­ gibility for low income pregnant women and children had already...

sensitive strain P3343110. When tested by long PCR, all 20 S. Java isolates produced a 10,041-bp fragment identical to that produced by P3170700. PCR was used to determine whether the pentaresistant phenotype was due to the presence of the Salmonella genomic island 1 (SGI1) as previously described (5). All 20 strains produced amplicons with primers U7-L12 and LJ-R1 for the left junction and pri...