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A regional outbreak of S. Typhimurium in Denmark and identification of the source using MLVA typing.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin - 1 Jan 2006
Torpdahl M, Sorensen G, Ethelberg S, Sandø G, Gammelgård K, Porsbo L Jannok
Abstract excerpt
In Denmark, as part of the national laboratory-based surveillance system of human enteric infections, all S. Typhimurium isolates are currently sub-typed using phage typing, antibiogram typing, and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). However, the discriminatory ability of PFGE is not always high enough to discriminate within certain phage types, and it is not always possible to separate unrelated and related...
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