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Typing of Campylobacter jejuni isolates from dogs by use of multilocus sequence typing and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Nov 2009
Parsons B N, Cody A J, Porter C J, Stavisky J H, Smith J L, Williams N J, Leatherbarrow A J H, Hart C A, Gaskell R M, Dingle K E, Dawson S
Abstract excerpt
Campylobacter is a major cause of human gastroenteritis worldwide. Risk of Campylobacter infection in humans has been associated with many sources, including dogs. This study aimed to investigate whether C. jejuni carried by dogs could potentially be a zoonotic risk for humans and if there were common sources of C. jejuni infection for both humans and dogs. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) together with...
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