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Molecular epidemiology of diphtheria in Russia, 1985-1994.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Nov 1996
Popovic T, Kombarova S Y, Reeves M W, Nakao H, Mazurova I K, Wharton M, Wachsmuth I K, Wenger J D
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The largest diphtheria outbreak in the developed world since the 1960s began in the Russian federation in 1990. One hundred fifty-six Corynebacterium diphtheriae strains from throughout Russia, selected for temporal and geographic diversity, were assayed by ribotyping and multilocus enzyme electr...
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