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. 1987 Aug;99(1):137–142. doi: 10.1017/s0950268800066942

Old and new techniques together resolve a problem of infection by Salmonella typhimurium.

D J Platt, D J Brown, D C Old, R M Barker, D S Munro, J Taylor
PMCID: PMC2249180  PMID: 3301374

Abstract

Isolates of Salmonella typhimurium, recovered over a 9-month period from a child with gastroenteritis, were characterized by biotyping, phage-typing and plasmid-profile analysis. Because the data from the different methods were discrepant, it was difficult to establish whether her infection was due to a single strain that had changed character in vivo or was due to recurrent infections with different, unrelated strains. Restriction-enzyme fingerprinting of the plasmids from the different isolates provided an explanation for the initial discrepancy and high-lighted a source of potential confusion in epidemiological studies.

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