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Using sequence data to identify alternative routes and risk of infection: a case-study of campylobacter in Scotland.
BMC infectious diseases - 1 Apr 2012
Bessell Paul R, Rotariu Ovidiu, Innocent Giles T, Smith-Palmer Alison, Strachan Norval J C, Forbes Ken J, Cowden John M, Reid Stuart W J, Matthews Louise
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BACKGROUND: Genetic typing data are a potentially powerful resource for determining how infection is acquired. In this paper MLST typing was used to distinguish the routes and risks of infection of humans with Campylobacter jejuni from poultry and ruminant sources METHODS: C. jejuni samples from animal and environmental sources and from reported human cases confirmed between June 2005 and September 2006 were...
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