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Campylobacter genotypes from food animals, environmental sources and clinical disease in Scotland 2005/6.
International journal of food microbiology - 31 Aug 2009
Sheppard Samuel K, Dallas John F, MacRae Marion, McCarthy Noel D, Sproston E L, Gormley F J, Strachan Norval J C, Ogden Iain D, Maiden Martin C J, Forbes Ken J
Abstract excerpt
A nationwide multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) survey was implemented to analyze patterns of host association among Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli isolates from clinical disease in Scotland (July 2005-September 2006), food animals (chickens, cattle, sheep, pigs and turkey), non-food animals (wild birds) and the environment. Sequence types (STs) were determined for 5247 clinical isolates and 999 from...
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