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SUBMITTER: Chiou CS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1698372 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chiou Chien-Shun CS Wei Hsiao-Lun HL Wang You-Wen YW Liao Jui-Cheng JC Li Chun-Chin CC
Journal of clinical microbiology 20060920 11
Shigella sonnei contains numerous IS1 elements. The existence of polymorphisms in the length of the inter-IS1 spacer is a basis for the development of a PCR-based method for the subtyping of S. sonnei strains. The usefulness of inter-IS1 spacer typing (IST) was evaluated and compared with that of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) by characterization of S. sonnei isolates from epidemiologically nonrelated cases and outbreaks and of isolates that were indistinguishable by PFGE and that were ...[more]