Multi Locus Variable-Number Tandem Repeat (MLVA) Typing Tools Improved the Surveillance of Salmonella Enteritidis: A 6 Years Retrospective Study

Sophie Bertrand; Guillaume De Lamine de Bex; Christa Wildemauwe; Octavie Lunguya; Marie France Phoba; Benedikt Ley; Jan Jacobs; Raymond Vanhoof; Wesley Mattheus

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0117950

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Multi Locus Variable-Number Tandem Repeat (MLVA) Typing Tools Improved the Surveillance of Salmonella Enteritidis: A 6 Years Retrospective Study

Sophie Bertrand ,

* E-mail: sophie.bertrand@wiv-isp.be

Affiliation National Reference Centre for Salmonellas, Bacterial Diseases Division, Communicable and Infectious Diseases, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium
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Guillaume De Lamine de Bex,

Affiliation National Reference Centre for Salmonellas, Bacterial Diseases Division, Communicable and Infectious Diseases, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium
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Christa Wildemauwe,

Affiliation National Reference Centre for Salmonellas, Bacterial Diseases Division, Communicable and Infectious Diseases, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium
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Octavie Lunguya,

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, National Institute for Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, The Democratic Republic of Congo
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Marie France Phoba,

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, National Institute for Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, The Democratic Republic of Congo
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Benedikt Ley,

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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Jan Jacobs,

Affiliations Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leuven, Belgium
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Raymond Vanhoof,

Affiliation National Reference Centre for Salmonellas, Bacterial Diseases Division, Communicable and Infectious Diseases, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium
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Wesley Mattheus

Affiliation National Reference Centre for Salmonellas, Bacterial Diseases Division, Communicable and Infectious Diseases, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium
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Multi Locus Variable-Number Tandem Repeat (MLVA) Typing Tools Improved the Surveillance of Salmonella Enteritidis: A 6 Years Retrospective Study

Sophie Bertrand,
Guillaume De Lamine de Bex,
Christa Wildemauwe,
Octavie Lunguya,
Marie France Phoba,
Benedikt Ley,
Jan Jacobs,
Raymond Vanhoof,
Wesley Mattheus

Published: February 18, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0117950

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