title: Molecular epidemiology of invasive Salmonella typhi in southeast Turkey.
abstract: The objective of this study was to determine the molecular epidemiology of Salmonella typhi isolates from patients with typhoid fever in southeast Turkey and to determine the relationship between the clinical strains and environmental subtypes. Both demographic and clinical data were obtained by chart review and compared to the molecular subtyping results.
authors.affiliation: Dicle University Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, 21280, Diyarbakir, Turkey. hosoglu@hotmail.com
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hosoglu
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Loeb
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Geyik
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ucmak
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jayaratne
mesh_terms: D024881:Drug Resistance, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D016521:Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field; D006801:Humans; D017720:Molecular Epidemiology; D021521:Ribotyping; D012485:Salmonella typhi / Q000235:genetics*; D014421:Turkey / Q000453:epidemiology; D014435:Typhoid Fever / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology