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Clonal population structure and antimicrobial resistance of Campylobacter jejuni in chicken meat from Belgium.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Jul 2009
Habib Ihab, Miller William G, Uyttendaele Mieke, Houf Kurt, De Zutter Lieven
Abstract excerpt
Campylobacter jejuni is one of the most important causes of human diarrhea worldwide. In the present work, multilocus sequence typing was used to study the genotypic diversity of 145 C. jejuni isolates from 135 chicken meat preparations sampled across Belgium. Isolates were further typed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, and their susceptibilities to six antimicrobials were determined. Fifty-seven sequence...
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