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Chickens and cattle as sources of sporadic domestically acquired Campylobacter jejuni infections in Finland.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Aug 2009
Hakkinen Marjaana, Nakari Ulla-Maija, Siitonen Anja
Abstract excerpt
A substantial sampling among domestic human campylobacter cases, chicken process lots, and cattle at slaughter was performed during the seasonal peak of human infections. Campylobacter jejuni isolates (n = 419) were subtyped using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis with SmaI, and isolates representing overlapping types (n = 212) were further subtyped using KpnI for restriction. The SmaI/KpnI profiles of 55.4%...
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