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Detection of Shigellae and Enteroinvasive<i>Escherichia coli</i>by Amplification of the Invasion Plasmid Antigen H DNA Sequence in Patients with Dysentery
1 Feb 1993
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Detection of Shigella organisms and enteroinvasive Escherichia coli (EIEC) by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was evaluated in 20 patients with dysentery before and in 17 of the 20 after treatment with ciprofloxacin. DNA sequences coding for IpaH antigen, a multiple copy sequence found on the chromosome, and the invasion plasmid locus (ial) was detected after DNA amplification in 13 stools from patients from whom...
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