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Molecular characterization of Campylobacter jejuni clones: a basis for epidemiologic investigation.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Sept 2002
Dingle Kate E, Colles Frances M, Ure Roisin, Wagenaar Jaap A, Duim Birgitta, Bolton Frederick J, Fox Andrew J, Wareing David R A, Maiden Martin C J
Abstract excerpt
A total of 814 isolates of the foodborne pathogen Campylobacter jejuni were characterized by multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and analysis of the variation of two cell-surface components: the heat-stable (HS) serotyping antigen and the flagella protein FlaA short variable region. We identified 379 combinations of the MLST loci (sequence types) and 215 combinations of the cell-surface components among these...
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