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Characteristics of the Turkish isolates of Francisella tularensis.
Japanese journal of infectious diseases - 1 May 2008
Gurcan Saban, Karabay Oğuz, Karadenizli Aynur, Karagol Ciğdem, Kantardjiev Todor, Ivanov Ivan N
Abstract excerpt
In this study, cultures of patients with tularemia were evaluated, and antimicrobial susceptibilities of two Francisella tularensis strains were tested by disk diffusion and E-test methods. A high-resolution multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) comprising six variable-number tandem repeat loci was applied to elucidate the genetic relatedness among Turkish and Bulgarian isolates which were...
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