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Diversity among French Bacillus anthracis isolates.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Dec 2002
Fouet Agnès, Smith Kimothy L, Keys Chris, Vaissaire Josée, Le Doujet Claudine, Lévy Martine, Mock Michèle, Keim Paul
Abstract excerpt
While outbreaks of animal anthrax zoonoses still regularly occur in France, little is known about the epidemiology links between them. We have used the eight-locus multilocus variable-number tandem repeat analysis typing technique against a collection of 50 Bacillus anthracis isolates from France. There were eight distinct genotypes belonging to two dissimilar genetic clusters. Regional strain patterns were...
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