Multilocus sequence typing confirms wild birds as the source of a Campylobacter outbreak associated with the consumption of raw peas

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 4540-4546

  Kwan, Patrick S L ^a   Xavier, Catherine ^c   Santovenia, Monica ^a   Pruckler, Janet ^a   Stroika, Steven ^a   Joyce, Kevin ^a   Gardner, Tracie ^b   Fields, Patricia I ^a   McLaughlin, Joe ^c   Tauxe, Robert V ^a   Fitzgerald, Collette ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

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

^c Alaska Department of Health and Human Services   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; ELECTROPHORESIS;

CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CAMPYLOBACTERIOSIS; CAMPYLOBACTERS; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTIONS; HUMAN INFECTION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BIRDS;

ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BIRD; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIC; FECES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PEA; PHYLOGENY; UNITED STATES; WILD ANIMAL;

ALASKA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIRDS; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FECES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PEAS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84904871753     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00537-14     Document Type: Article

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