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Salmonella enterica is widely recognized as a major cause of foodborne diseases in humans and animals and has been isolated from environmental sources in increasing numbers worldwide (1,2). Conventional typing methods such as serotyping and phage typing have been and still are the mainstay in descriptive epidemiology of this microorganism. Nevertheless, limitations on the availability of phage reagents circumscribes the performance of such technique in reference laboratories.
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Vivanco, A.B., Alvarez, J., Laconcha, I., López-Molina, N., Rementeria, A., Garaizar, J. (2004). Molecular Genotyping Methods and Computerized Analysis for the Study of Salmonella enterica . In: Spencer, J.F.T., Ragout de Spencer, A.L. (eds) Public Health Microbiology. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 268. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1385/1-59259-766-1:049
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