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Molecular analysis of isolates of Salmonella typhi obtained from patients with fatal and nonfatal typhoid fever.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Apr 1996
Thong K L, Passey M, Clegg A, Combs B G, Yassin R M, Pang T
Abstract excerpt
Molecular characterization of a total of 52 human isolates of Salmonella typhi from Papua New Guinea was performed by using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) after digestion of chromosomal DNA with three restriction endonucleases, XbaI (5'-TCTAGA-3'), AvrII (5'-CCTAGG-3'), and SpeI (5'-ACTAGT-3'). Of the 52 isolates tested, 11 were obtained from patients with fatal typhoid fever and 41 were obtained from...
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