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Comparing invasive and non-invasive of isolated Shigella flexneri by electron microscopy of cell culture, SDS-PAGE and Congo red method.
Iranian biomedical journal - 1 Jan 2007
Hakemi Vala Mojdeh, Nowroozi Jamileh, Ghazi Farideh, Nabavi Tabatabai Parvaneh, Haghighi Saeed
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BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to compare invasive and non-invasive strains of Shigella flexneri isolated from Tehran by a 120 kDa protein band by SDS-PAGE, electron microscopy of cell culture and Congo red dye methods. METHODS: S. flexneri strains were isolated by standard bacterial methods from fecal specimens of children attending to the 3 children's hospitals. Phenotype analysis for screening virulent...
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