Tandem repeat analysis for surveillance of human Salmonella Typhimurium infections

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 388-395

  Torpdahl, Mia ^a   Sørensen, Gitte ^b   Lindstedt, Bjørn Arne ^c   Nielsen, Eva Møller ^a  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DENMARK; DNA DETERMINATION; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTESTINE INFECTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SALMONELLOSIS; TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 33847395073     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1303.060460     Document Type: Article

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