title: [Phage-typing of typhoid cultures and results of use of this method in anti-epidemic practice in the Azerbaijan SSR].
abstract: This work was aimed at the study of the phage-type pattern of the causative agents of typhoid fever isolated in the Azerbaijan SSR in 1960-1973. As revealed, the following 26 phage-types circulated in Azerbaijan during the period under study: A, B1, B2, B3, C1, C4, C5, D1, D2, D4, D8, E1, E2, E3, E5, F1, F2, I1, M1N, T, 28, 38, 39, 40 and 46. The most widespread were phage-types A (22.86%), E1 (13.96%), F1 (9.74%), F2 (6.70%), and 28 (5.71%) constituting over half of the typed typhoid strains. Sources and ways of transmission of the infection were deciphered with the aid of phage-typing typhoid cultures.
mesh_terms: D001382:Azerbaijan; D001434:Bacteriophage Typing; D002353:Carrier State / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D012483:Salmonella Phages; D012485:Salmonella typhi / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014435:Typhoid Fever / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000635:transmission
vernacular_title: Fagotipirovanie briushnotifoznykh kul'tur i rezul'taty primeneniia étogo metoda v protivoépidemicheskoĭ praktike v Azerbaĭdzhanskoĭ SSR