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Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of serologically atypical strains of Shigella flexneri type 4 isolated in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jul 2002
Talukder Kaisar A, Islam M Aminul, Dutta Dilip K, Hassan Ferdaus, Safa Ashrafus, Nair G B, Sack David A
Abstract excerpt
Twenty-one atypical Shigella flexneri type 4 strains isolated from patients attending the Dhaka treatment center of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, were extensively characterized and compared with S. flexneri serotypes 4a and 4b. The atypical strains agglutinated only with the type antigen factor 4 and did not agglutinate with any group factors, thereby excluding their...
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