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Host association of Campylobacter genotypes transcends geographic variation.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Aug 2010
Sheppard Samuel K, Colles Frances, Richardson Judith, Cody Alison J, Elson Richard, Lawson Andrew, Brick Geraldine, Meldrum Richard, Little Christine L, Owen Robert J, Maiden Martin C J, McCarthy Noel D
Abstract excerpt
Genetic attribution of bacterial genotypes has become a major tool in the investigation of the epidemiology of campylobacteriosis and has implicated retail chicken meat as the major source of human infection in several countries. To investigate the robustness of this approach to the provenance of the reference data sets used, a collection of 742 Campylobacter jejuni and 261 Campylobacter coli isolates obtained...
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