Genetic relationship and correspondence of Salmonella Typhi isolated from water samples in typhoid outbreak localities with food handlers and contact by using Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE)

• Main Author: I., Asma,
• Format: Article
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: bacterial strain; bacterium identification; bacterium isolate; data analysis software; disease carrier; disease transmission; human; Malaysia; nonhuman; priority journal; species difference; typhoid fever; water contamination; water sampling
• Online Access: http://ddms.usim.edu.my/handle/123456789/8820

Introduction: Kelantan remains as the highest endemic area in Malaysia for typhoid cases with the incidence rate of 3.29 and 2.8 per 100,000 populations in 2008 and 2010. Salmonella Typhi is the causative pathogen of this illness which transmitted through fecal oral route, causing human is the only...