Molecular analysis of clonally related Salmonella Typhi recovered from epidemiologically unrelated cases of typhoid fever, Brazil

Background: The primary method of molecular subtyping for the identification and investigation of outbreaks has been pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). In some cases, this technique has not been able to show discrimination between the unrelated strains that can be achieved by whole genome sequ...

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Main Authors: Monique Ribeiro Tiba-Casas, Cláudio Tavares Sacchi, Cláudia Regina Gonçalves, Elisabete Aparecida Almeida, Flávia Barrosa Soares, Amanda Maria de Jesus Bertani, Sueli Aparecida Fernandes, Maria Bernadete de Paula Eduardo, Carlos Henrique Camargo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-04-01
Series:International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971219300736