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Table 1. The overall use of various phenotypic and molecular typing methods in typing Salmonella
serovars from 1950 onwards. Results of a Medline search on the methods and salmonella
conducted on 13th March 2007. The total number of hits and the first publication for Salmonella
typing are shown.
Typing method
Bacteriophage typing
Biotyping
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing
Multilocus enzyme electrophoresis
Plasmid profiles
Plasmid fingerprinting
IS200-typing
Ribotyping
PFGE
AP-PCR
RAPD-PCR
ERIC-PCR
REP-PCR
Identification of spv genes
PCR-RFLP
AFLP
IS200-PCR
MLST
VNTR
Number of hits First publication
893 1950; Scholtens RT a
67 1956; Levi E
110 1977; Balzer K
32 1988; Beltran P et al
225 1982; Riley, Cohen
100 1982; Taylor et al
61 1991; Stanley et al
146 1993; Esteban et al
607 1994; Olsen et al
7 1995; Fadl et al
51 1996; Lin et al
13 1996; Kerouanton et al
22 1996; Kerouanton et al
4 1997; El-Gedaily et al
22 1997; Shah, Romick
12 1998; Aarts et al
1 2000; Millemann et al
10 2002; Kotetishvili et al
7 2003; Lindstedt et al
MLVA 5 2004; Lindstedt et al
a The phage typing scheme for Salmonella Typhimurium was established in 1943.
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