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A longitudinal 6-year study of the molecular epidemiology of clinical campylobacter isolates in Oxfordshire, United kingdom.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Oct 2012
Cody Alison J, McCarthy Noel M, Wimalarathna Helen L, Colles Frances M, Clark Lorraine, Bowler Ian C J W, Maiden Martin C J, Dingle Kate E
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Temporal and seasonal trends in Campylobacter genotypes causing human gastroenteritis were investigated in a 6-year study of 3,300 recent isolates from Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. Genotypes (sequence types [ST]) were defined using multilocus sequence typing and assigned to a clonal complex (a cluster of related strains that share four or more identical alleles with a previously defined central genotype). A...
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