Article
Molecular characterization of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium isolated from human, food, and animal sources in Malaysia.
Japanese journal of infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2013
Ngoi Soo Tein, Lindstedt Bjørn-Arne, Watanabe Haruo, Thong Kwai Lin
Abstract excerpt
Salmonella Typhimurium is an important nontyphoidal Salmonella serovar associated with foodborne diseases in many parts of the world. This organism is the major causative agent of nontyphoidal salmonellosis in Malaysia. We aimed to investigate the genetic profiles of the strains isolated from clinical, zoonotic, and dietary sources in Malaysia using multilocus variable number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) and...
Topics
- Animals
- Drug Resistance, Bacterial
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
- Endemic Diseases
- Food Microbiology
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Malaysia
- Minisatellite Repeats
- Molecular Epidemiology
