Molecular typing of multidrug-resistant Salmonella Blockley outbreak isolates from Greece

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 60-64

  Tassios, Panayotis T ^a   Chadjichristodoulou, Christos ^b   Lambiri, Maria ^c   Kansouzidou Kanakoudi, Athina ^d   Sarandopoulou, Zannina ^a   Kourea Kremastinou, Jenny ^c   Tzouvelekis, Leonidas S ^a   Legakis, Nicholas J ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Natl Ctr Survlnc and Intervention   (Greece)

^c NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

^d Salmonella Ref Ctr Macedonia T   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GASTROENTERITIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GREECE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLOSIS; SEROTYPE;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GREECE; HUMANS; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS;

EID: 0034002920     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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