Whole-genome sequencing detection of ongoing Listeria contamination at a restaurant, Rhode Island, USA, 2014

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1474-1476

  Barkley, Jonathan S ^a   Gosciminski, Michael ^a   Miller, Adam ^a  

^a RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; CROSS REACTION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LISTERIOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CATERING SERVICE; FOOD CONTROL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LISTERIA; MICROBIOLOGY; RHODE ISLAND;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LISTERIA; LISTERIOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; RESTAURANTS; RHODE ISLAND;

EID: 84978776969     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2208.151917     Document Type: Article

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