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Case Reports
. 2010 May;16(5):879-80.
doi: 10.3201/eid1605.091917.

Fluoroquinolone-resistant typhoid, South Africa

Karen H Keddy, Anthony M Smith, Arvinda Sooka, Husna Ismail, Stephen Oliver
Case Reports

Fluoroquinolone-resistant typhoid, South Africa

Karen H Keddy et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 May.
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Dendrogram of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis patterns representative of the 15 largest clusters of Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi isolates identified in South Africa during 2005–2009. The pattern of isolate 372460 is indicated. Scale bar represents percentage similarity of pathogens.
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