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Pulsed field gel electrophoresis typing of human and retail foodstuff Campylobacters: an Irish perspective.
Food microbiology - 1 May 2011
O'Leary Aoife M, Whyte Paul, Madden Robert H, Cormican Martin, Moore John E, Mc Namara Eleanor, Mc Gill Kevina, Kelly Lorraine, Cowley Damien, Moran Lynn, Scates Pam, Collins J Dan, Carroll Cyril V
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Campylobacter enteritis is a zoonosis, an infectious disease transmissible under normal conditions from vertebrate animals to man, presenting a major global public health burden. In this study, Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE) was employed to identify common genotypes in a collection of 600 Campylobacter isolates in order to investigate if profiles obtained from retail samples of foodstuffs matched...
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