Article
[Genotyping of Shigella flexneri 2a strains isolated from patients with acute dysentery in St. Petersburg].
Zhurnal mikrobiologii, epidemiologii i immunobiologii - 1 Jan 2000
Stavitskaia E L, Narvskaia O V, Mokrousov I V, Zhurkin A T, Noskov F S
Abstract excerpt
Polymerase chain reaction with universal primers (UP-PCR) was used for the genotyping of 76 S.flexneri 2a cultures isolated from patients with acute dysentery in infectious and psychoneurological hospitals of St. Petersburg. 9 types were determined, and each of them included cultures with identic...
Topics
- Acute Disease
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Dysentery, Bacillary
- Female
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Russia
- Shigella flexneri
