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The prevalences of Salmonella Genomic Island 1 variants in human and animal Salmonella Typhimurium DT104 are distinguishable using a Bayesian approach.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Mather Alison E, Denwood Matthew J, Haydon Daniel T, Matthews Louise, Mellor Dominic J, Coia John E, Brown Derek J, Reid Stuart W J
Abstract excerpt
Throughout the 1990 s, there was an epidemic of multidrug resistant Salmonella Typhimurium DT104 in both animals and humans in Scotland. The use of antimicrobials in agriculture is often cited as a major source of antimicrobial resistance in pathogenic bacteria of humans, suggesting that DT104 in animals and humans should demonstrate similar prevalences of resistance determinants. Until very recently, only the...
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