Evaluating gulls as potential vehicles of salmonella enterica serotype newport (JJPX01.0061) contamination of tomatoes grown on the eastern shore of Virginia

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 235-238

  Gruszynski, Karen ^a   Pao, Steven ^b   Kim, Chyer ^b   Toney, Denise M ^c   Wright, Kim ^d   Colón, Ana ^a   Engelmeyer, T ^e   Levine, Seth J ^a  

^a VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^e Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FINGERPRINTS; FECAL SAMPLES; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; MULTI-STATE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEROTYPES; VIRGINIA;

CONTAMINATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; SALMONELLA;

FRUITS;

BACTERIUM; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROKINESIS; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FRUIT; GEL; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; POLLUTION EFFECT;

UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHARADRIIFORMES; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FECES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEROTYPING; TOMATO; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CHARADRIIFORMES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FECES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEROTYPING; VIRGINIA;

EID: 84891072638     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02809-13     Document Type: Article

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