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Comparison of phenotypic and genotypic markers for characterization of an outbreak of Salmonella serotype Havana in captive raptors.
Journal of applied microbiology - 1 Jan 2003
Reche M P, Echeita M A, de los Rios J E García, Usera M A, Jiménez P A, Rojas A M, Colás J, Rodriguez I
Abstract excerpt
AIMS: To establish a typing method for tracing the epidemic relationship of 16 strains of Salmonella serotype Havana isolated from captive raptors showing no symptomatology and residing in a wildlife hospital in Spain. METHODS AND RESULTS: Antimicrobial susceptibility testing, ribotyping, pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) methodology were applied. Ten...
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