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Limited genetic diversity in Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis PT13.
BMC microbiology - 1 Oct 2007
Olson Adam B, Andrysiak Ashleigh K, Tracz Dobryan M, Guard-Bouldin Jean, Demczuk Walter, Ng Lai-King, Maki Anne, Jamieson Frances, Gilmour Matthew W
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BACKGROUND: Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis has emerged as a significant foodborne pathogen throughout the world and is commonly characterized by phage typing. In Canada phage types (PT) 4, 8 and 13 predominate and in 2005 a large foodborne PT13 outbreak occurred in the province of Ontario. The ability to link strains during this outbreak was difficult due to the apparent clonality of PT13 isolates in...
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