[contribution of phage typing and ribotyping in investigating a typhoid fever outbreak in tunisia]. | a study was carried out to investigate an outbreak of typhoid fever that occurred in sousse city and in the vicinity of sousse (tunisia) during summer 1999. twenty four isolates of salmonella enterica serotype typhi were isolated in hospitalized patients with a typhoid fever in two hospitals (farhat hached sousse and m'saken) and were studied with the help of two molecular typing methods: phage typing and automated ribotyping. twenty one isolates with the vi antigen had profile dvs (degraded vi ... | 2004 | 15462196 |