| Literature DB >> 12454180 |
Agnès Fouet1, Kimothy L Smith, Chris Keys, Josée Vaissaire, Claudine Le Doujet, Martine Lévy, Michèle Mock, Paul Keim.
Abstract
While outbreaks of animal anthrax zoonoses still regularly occur in France, little is known about the epidemiology links between them. We have used the eight-locus multilocus variable-number tandem repeat analysis typing technique against a collection of 50 Bacillus anthracis isolates from France. There were eight distinct genotypes belonging to two dissimilar genetic clusters. Regional strain patterns were observed, with the B2 genotypes prevalent in southern France and the A1a genotypes found only in northern France.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 12454180 PMCID: PMC154597 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.40.12.4732-4734.2002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948