Commentary: Cluster evaluation, PulseNet, and public health practice

Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 32-35

  Hedberg, Craig W ^a   Besser, John M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FOOD CONTAMINATION; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33645704167     PISSN: 15353141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/fpd.2006.3.32     Document Type: Note

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