New DNA test will improve tracking of Salmonella food-poisoning outbreaks (IMAGE)

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New DNA test will improve tracking of Salmonella food-poisoning outbreaks

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Salmonella are gram-negative, rod-shaped, facultative anerobic bacteria. Zhang et al developed sensitive and specific assays to detect different serotypes of Salmonella, paving the way for rapid serotyping directly from specimens.

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Public Health Image Library, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, James Archer (2019).

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