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[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 identical UP-PCR patterns. The population of the infective agent was more heterogeneous in psychoneurological hospitals where...
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