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A High-throughput Platform for the Screening of Salmonella spp./Shigella spp.
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[Salmonella Freetown: 1st isolation in Argentina]
M I Caffer1, C Mayoral, S Bruno
1Instituto Nacional de Microbiología Dr. C. Malbrán, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Revista Argentina De Microbiologia
|April 1, 1996
Abstract:
In this paper we report the first case of Salmonella Freetown in Argentina. It was isolated from a stool sample of a child of 1 month and 7 days, assisted as outpatient in the Hospital de Niños Dr. Ricardo Gutiérrez of the city of Santa Fe. On the basis of the biochemical characteristics and antigenic formulae, this new serovar belongs to the species Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica.
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