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Utility of a Polymerase Chain Reaction Diagnostic System in a Study of the Epidemiology of Shigellosis among Dysentery Patients, Family Contacts, and Well Controls Living in a Shigellosis‐Endemic Area
1 Oct 1997
Abstract excerpt
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) diagnostic methods have rarely been used in epidemiologic studies of Shigella and enteroinvasive Escherichia coli (EIEC) infections. In this study, amplification of the invasion plasmid antigen H (ipaH) gene by PCR and standard culture methods was used to identify Shigella species or EIEC among 154 patients with dysentery, 154 age-matched controls, and family contacts in Thailand....
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