Epidemiology of a Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar typhimurium strain associated with a songbird outbreak

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 7290-7298

  Hernandez, Sonia M ^a   Keel, Kevin ^a   Sanchez, Susan ^a   Trees, Eija ^b   Gerner Smidt, Peter ^b   Adams, Jennifer K ^c   Cheng, Ying ^a   Ray III, Al ^a   Martin, Gordon ^a   Presotto, Andrea ^a   Ruder, Mark G ^a,f   Brown, Justin ^a   Blehert, David S ^d   Cottrell, Walter ^e   Maurer, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^e Pennsylvania Game Commission   (United States)

^f AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EAST COAST; MINNESOTA; MOLECULAR TYPING; POPULATION DENSITIES; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; S. TYPHIMURIUM; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA SEROVAR; SEROVAR;

ELECTROPHORESIS; GOLD; POPULATION STATISTICS; SALMONELLA;

BIRDS;

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GROUNDNUT; HEALTH RISK; POPULATION DENSITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SONGBIRD;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL SALMONELLOSIS; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SONGBIRD; UNITED STATES; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOTYPE; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SONGBIRDS; UNITED STATES;

MINNESOTA; UNITED STATES;

ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; AVES; CARDINALIS CARDINALIS; CARDUELIS PINUS; CARDUELIS TRISTIS; PASSERI; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 84868366952     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01408-12     Document Type: Article

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