Practicalities of using non-local or non-recent multilocus sequence typing data for source attribution in space and time of human campylobacteriosis.

In this study, 1208 Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli isolates from humans and 400 isolates from chicken, collected in two separate periods over 12 years in The Netherlands, were typed using multilocus sequence typing (MLST). Statistical evidence was found for a shift of ST frequencies in human isola...

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Main Authors: Joost H Smid, Lapo Mughini Gras, Albert G de Boer, Nigel P French, Arie H Havelaar, Jaap A Wagenaar, Wilfrid van Pelt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3566096?pdf=render