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Genetic affinities within a large global collection of pathogenic Leptospira: implications for strain identification and molecular epidemiology.
PloS one - 27 Aug 2010
Nalam Kishore, Ahmed Ahmed, Devi Sundru Manjulata, Francalacci Paolo, Baig Mumtaz, Sechi Leonardo A, Hartskeerl Rudy A, Ahmed Niyaz
Abstract excerpt
Leptospirosis is an important zoonosis with widespread human health implications. The non-availability of accurate identification methods for the individualization of different Leptospira for outbreak investigations poses bountiful problems in the disease control arena. We harnessed fluorescent amplified fragment length polymorphism analysis (FAFLP) for Leptospira and investigated its utility in establishing...
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