title: Microbiological methods and plasmid pattern analysis in epidemiological control of Shigella sonnei infections.
abstract: Shigella sonnei plays an important aetiological role in bacillary dysentery. Advances in methodology for the study of intraspecies differentiation are proving to be valuable in the epidemiological analysis of infections caused by this agent.
authors.affiliation: Medical Academy, Research Institute of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Sofia, Bulgaria.
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Bratoeva
mesh_terms: D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D004405:Dysentery, Bacillary / Q000209:etiology*; D011815:R Factors; D012764:Shigella sonnei / Q000145:classification*