Article
Diversity of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi strains collected from india using variable number tandem repeat (VNTR)-PCR analysis.
Molecular diagnosis & therapy - 1 Aug 2013
Sankar Sathish, Kuppanan Suresh, Nandagopal Balaji, Sridharan Gopalan
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Typhoid fever is endemic in India, and a seasonal increase of cases is observed annually. In spite of effective therapies and the availability of vaccines, morbidity is widespread owing to the circulation of multiple genetic variants, frequent migration of asymptomatic carriers, unhygienic food practices and the emergence of multidrug resistance and thus continues to be a major public health problem...
Topics
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- India
- Minisatellite Repeats
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Salmonella typhi
