Molecular Epidemiologic Typing Systems of Bacterial Pathogens: Current Issues and Perpectives
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Molecular epidemiologic typing systems of bacterial pathogens: current issues and perspectives.
The epidemiologic typing of bacterial pathogens can be applied to answer a number of different questions: in case of outbreak, what is the extent and mode of transmission of epidemic clone(s)? In case of long-term surveillance, what is the prevalence over time and the geographic spread of epidemic and endemic clones in the population? A number of molecular typing methods can be used to classify...
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عنوان ژورنال: Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0074-0276
DOI: 10.1590/s0074-02761998000500004