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Performance of a 70-mer oligonucleotide microarray for genotyping of Campylobacter jejuni.
BMC microbiology - 8 May 2008
Rodin Sandra, Andersson Anders F, Wirta Valtteri, Eriksson Lena, Ljungström Marianne, Björkholm Britta, Lindmark Hans, Engstrand Lars
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BACKGROUND: Campylobacter jejuni is widespread in the environment and is the major cause of bacterial gastroenteritis in humans. In the present study we use microarray-based comparative genomic hybridizations (CGH), pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and multilocus sequence typing (MLST) to analyze closely related C. jejuni isolates from chicken and human infection. RESULTS: With the exception of one...
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