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. 1994 Feb;112(1):45–49. doi: 10.1017/s095026880005740x

Bacteriophage typing in Salmonella bareilly.

N C Sharma 1, R Bhatia 1, S Singh 1, P C John 1, S Kumar 1, H Singh 1
PMCID: PMC2271486  PMID: 8119364

Abstract

A total of 675 strains of Salmonella bareilly received from different parts of India and France during 1959-92 were phage typed using six bacteriophages. Overall typability achieved was 90.8% with 23 distinct phage types excluding a group of untypable strains. Phage types have been defined in octal code. Simpson's coefficient was applied for diversity index having a value of 0.839. This system was found to be reproducible, stable and epidemiologically useful.

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