Document Type
Article (Restricted)
Publication Date
1-1-1997
Abstract
An outbreak of typhoid fever in Zurich, Switzerland, which involved seven customers and three employees of a city mall restaurant, was investigated by comparing three molecular typing methods: pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), ribosomal RNA gene restriction patterns (ribotyping), and random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD). Both PFGE and ribotyping identified two molecular patterns among the outbreak-related isolates which differed in one band: these isolates were considered clonally related and differed clearly from other unrelated S. typhi strains. RAPD could not distinguish among outbreak isolates and control strains.
Divisions
InstituteofBiologicalSciences
Publication Title
Journal of Microbiological Methods
Volume
28
Issue
1997
Publisher
Elsevier
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