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. 2003 Dec;41(12):5833-4.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.41.12.5833-5834.2003.

Newly emerged multiple-antibiotic-resistant Shigella dysenteriae type 1 strains in and around Kolkata, India, are clonal

Shanta Dutta, Ayantika Ghosh, Kaushik Ghosh, Dharitri Dutta, Sujit K Bhattacharya, G Balakrish Nair, Shin-ichi Yoshida

Newly emerged multiple-antibiotic-resistant Shigella dysenteriae type 1 strains in and around Kolkata, India, are clonal

Shanta Dutta et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2003 Dec.
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FIG. 1.
PFGE patterns of S. dysenteriae type 1 strains isolated from Kolkata after digesting genomic DNA with the XbaI restriction endonuclease enzyme. Lanes M, 48.5-kb concatemers of bacteriophage λ DNA (Bio-Rad, Hercules, Calif.) used as molecular size standards; lane 1, outbreak strain (X1 pulsotype); lanes 2 to 4, 6 to 8, and 10 to 12, strains from hospitalized cases (X1 pulsotype); lane 5, hospital strain (X11 subtype); lane 9, hospital strain (X12 subtype); lane 13, smearing of DNA.
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