| [usefulness of genotypic analysis for investigation of an epidemic of shigella sonnei infections in ooami-shirasato town, chiba prefecture]. | in march 1996, an epidemic of shigella sonnei infection occurred in ooamishira-sato town, chiba prefecture. colicine typing, antibiotic resistance patterns, plasmid profiles, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (pfge) and random amplified poly-morphic dna (rapd) were used for the investigation of the epidemic. ninety-four isolates from patients exhibited three different colicine types and five different antibiotic resistance patterns. but the patterns of plasmid profile, pfge and rapd were uniform ... | 1998 | 9695472 |