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Occurrence of spvA virulence gene and clinical significance for multidrug-resistant Salmonella strains.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Mar 2009
Gebreyes Wondwossen A, Thakur Siddhartha, Dorr Paul, Tadesse Daniel A, Post Karen, Wolf Leslie
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Nontyphoidal Salmonella strains are important reservoirs of antimicrobial resistance. An important issue that has not been investigated is whether the multiresistant Salmonella strains are more virulent than their susceptible counterparts. Salmonella isolates collected from clinical human (n=888) and porcine (n=2,120) cases at the same time period and geographic location were investigated. Antimicrobial...
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