The key role of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis in investigation of a large multiserotype and multistate food-borne outbreak of Salmonella infections centered in Pennsylvania

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 3208-3212

  Sandt, Carol H ^a   Krouse, Donna A ^b   Cook, Charles R ^a   Hackman, Amy L ^a   Chmielecki, Wayne A ^a   Warren, Nancy G ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b Bureau of Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CATERING SERVICE; EPIDEMIC; FOOD POISONING; INFECTION CONTROL; LABORATORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ANATUM; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLOSIS; SEROTYPE; TOMATO; UNITED STATES;

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PENNSYLVANIA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA FOOD POISONING; SEROTYPING; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

EID: 33748800285     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01404-06     Document Type: Article

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