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Putative household outbreaks of campylobacteriosis typically comprise single MLST genotypes.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Dec 2010
Rotariu O, Smith-Palmer A, Cowden J, Bessell P R, Innocent G T, Reid S W J, Matthews L, Dallas J, Ogden I D, Forbes K J, Strachan N J C
Abstract excerpt
During a 15-month period in Scotland a small but important number of human Campylobacter cases (3·2%) arose from 91 putative household outbreaks. Of the 26 outbreaks with known strain composition, 89% were composed of the same MLST which supports the potential use of MLST in public health epidemiology. The number of cases associated with household outbreaks is much larger than general outbreaks and there is some...
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