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Evaluation of 10 methods to distinguish epidemic-associated Campylobacter strains.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Apr 1991
Patton C M, Wachsmuth I K, Evins G M, Kiehlbauch J A, Plikaytis B D, Troup N, Tompkins L, Lior H
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We compared four phenotypic and six genotypic methods for distinguishing Campylobacter jejuni strains from animals and humans involved in four epidemics. Based on a comparison with epidemiologic data, the methods that correctly identified all strains in three milkborne outbreaks and one waterborne outbreak were heat-stable and heat-labile serotyping; multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (MEE); DNA restriction...
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