Two listeria outbreaks caused by smoked fish consumption—using whole-genome sequencing for outbreak investigations

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 620-624

  Gillesberg Lassen, S ^a   Ethelberg, S ^a   Bjorkman J T ^a   Jensen, T ^b   Sorensen G ^c   Kvistholm Jensen, A ^a   Muller L ^a   Nielsen, E M ^a   Molbak K ^a  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b DANISH VETERINARY AND FOOD ADMINISTRATION   (Denmark)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Disease outbreak; Food safety; Foodborne disease; High throughput DNA sequencing; Listeria infections; Pregnancy complications (infectious)

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FISH; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PROCESSING; FOOD SAFETY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SMOKED FISH; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENOME; DNA SEQUENCE; FOOD CONTROL; FOODBORNE DISEASES; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CHILD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FISHES; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOODBORNE DISEASES; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84981268239     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2016.04.017     Document Type: Article

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