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Monophasic Salmonella Typhimurium (1,4,[5],12:i:-), a worldwide emerging pathogen, has been occurring in Poland since 2008. Characterization of swine, cattle, geese, food, feed and human isolates obtained in the years 2011-2012 by pulsed field gel electrophoresis, antimicrobial resistance typing with microbroth dilution method was performed for the evaluation of their epidemiological importance for human public and animal health. The prevalence of monophasic Salmonella Typhimurium in Poland has recently increased and its proportion to classical biphasic variants reached 15.5% in 2012. The isolates revealed microbiological resistance to at least one tested compound and ten resistance profiles were found. The most frequent profile covered resistance to ampicillin, streptomycin, sulphonamides and tetracycline. Fourteen XbaI-PFGE profiles with an overall similarity of 52.4% were noted. Most of the isolates were classified to two PFGE profiles showing a 95.4% similarity. Finding of monophasic S. Typhimurium originating from people within the same XbaI-PFGE profile comprising also swine and cattle isolates indicate a possible role of animal sources in the spread of this pathogen.