Identification of a salmonellosis outbreak by means of molecular sequencing

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 364, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 981-982

  Lienau, E Kurt ^a   Strain, Errol ^a   Wang, Charles ^a   Zheng, Jie ^a   Ottesen, Andrea R ^a   Keys, Christine E ^a   Hammack, Thomas S ^a   Musser, Steven M ^a   Brown, Eric W ^a   Allard, Marc W ^a   Cao, Guojie ^b   Meng, Jianghong ^b   Stones, Robert ^c  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLACK PEPPER; EPIDEMIC; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD PROCESSING; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PEPPER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLOSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 79952432498     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1100443     Document Type: Letter

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