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Molecular epidemiology of multidrug-resistant Shigella dysenteriae type 1 causing dysentery outbreaks in Central African Republic, 2003-2004.
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene - 1 Dec 2006
Bercion Raymond, Demartin Marie, Recio Carlos, Massamba Peguy-Martial, Frank Thierry, Escribà Josep M, Grimont Francine, Grimont Patrick A D, Weill François-Xavier
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Shigella dysenteriae type 1 (Sd1) represents a particular threat in developing countries because of the severity of the infection and its epidemic potential. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing and molecular subtyping by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and plasmid profiling (PP) of Sd1 isolates collected during two dysentery outbreaks (2013 and 445 cases of bloody diarrhoea) in Central African Republic...
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