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. 1983 Dec;18(6):1427–1428. doi: 10.1128/jcm.18.6.1427-1428.1983

Application of serotyping and chromosomal restriction endonuclease digest analysis in investigating a laboratory-acquired case of Campylobacter jejuni enteritis.

J L Penner, J N Hennessy, S D Mills, W C Bradbury
PMCID: PMC272922  PMID: 6317712

Abstract

A frequently passaged laboratory strain of Campylobacter jejuni was confirmed by serotyping on the basis of thermostable antigens and by bacterial chromosomal restriction endonuclease digests to be the causative agent of enteritis in a laboratory worker.

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