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Genotyping of Salmonella with lineage-specific genes: correlation with serotyping.
International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases - 1 Aug 2016
Zou Qing-Hua, Li Ren-Qing, Liu Gui-Rong, Liu Shu-Lin
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BACKGROUND: The bacterial genus Salmonella encompasses a large number of serotypes that are genetically very similar but biologically quite different, especially in pathogenic properties and host specificity. Serotyping has been used for the classification, identification, and epidemiological investigation due to its excellent discriminating power, but it cannot distinguish the different pathogenic lineages...
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