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Use of fluorescent amplified fragment length polymorphism for molecular epidemiology of leptospirosis in India.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Aug 2004
Vijayachari P, Ahmed Niyaz, Sugunan A P, Ghousunnissa Sheikh, Rao K Rajender, Hasnain Seyed E, Sehgal Subhash C
Abstract excerpt
Nineteen isolates of leptospires recovered from patients during three epidemics that occurred at different places and different times in the Andaman Islands and eight isolates from sporadic cases were characterized using serological and molecular genetic techniques. Group sera and monoclonal antibodies were used for antigenic characterization, whereas fluorescent amplified fragment length polymorphism (FAFLP) was...
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