Article
Genotypic analysis of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi collected during two successive autumnal typhoid outbreaks in southeast Tunisia.
Pathologie-biologie - 1 Sept 2007
Ben Saida N, Mhalla S, Bouzouïa N, Boukadida J
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Investigation of two successive autumnal outbreaks of typhoid fever that occurred in southeast Tunisia. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Salmonella typhi isolates collected from confirmed cases of typhoid fever during the two outbreaks occurred in autumn 2004 and 2005 and from healthy carriers were analyzed by antibiogram and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). RESULTS: A total of 86 isolates of Salmonella...
Topics
- Disease Outbreaks
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
- Genotype
- Humans
- Salmonella typhi
- Seasons
- Tunisia
- Typhoid Fever
