A multi-country Salmonella Enteritidis phage type 14b outbreak associated with eggs from a German producer: ‘Near real-time’ application of whole genome sequencing and food chain investigations, United Kingdom, may to september 2014

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 20, Issue 16, 2015, Pages

  Inns, Thomas ^c   Lane, C ^a   Peters, T ^a   Dallman, T ^a   Chatt, C ^a   McFarland, N ^a   Crook, P ^a   Bishop, T ^b   Edge, J ^b   Hawker, J ^a   Elson, R ^a   Neal, K ^a   Adak, G K ^a   Cleary, P ^a   Adak, Bob ^c   Adams, Natalie ^c   Anderson, Debbie ^c   Ashton, Philip ^c   Balasegaram, Sooria ^c   Barnett, Maree ^c   Bishop, Tracy ^c   Brown, Louise ^c   Chatt, Carol ^c   Cleary, Paul ^c   Cook, Paul ^c   Crook, Paul ^c   Dallman, Tim ^c   de Pinna, Elizabeth ^c   Edge, Joanne ^c   Elson, Richard ^c   Fisher, Ian ^c   Fox, Andrew ^c   Freeman, Rachel ^c   Glen, Kirsten ^c   Godbole, Gauri ^c   Hawker, Jeremy ^c   Jefferies, Jo ^c   Kerac, Marko ^c   Leong, Geraldine ^c   Lane, Chris ^c   Leung, Michelle ^c   Neal, Keith ^c   Marsh, Gillian ^c   McFarland, Noëleen ^c   Moreno, Ruth ^c   Morgan, Cam ^c   Morton, Stephen ^c   Parry, Ruth ^c   Peters, Tansy ^c   Randles, Philip ^c   Reeves, Sarah ^c   Stewart, Alex ^c   Stone, Kirsten ^c   Tubin Delic, Drazenka ^c   Vivancos, Roberto ^c   more..

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b FOOD STANDARDS AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; CHILD; EGG; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR ENTERITIDIS; SALMONELLOSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UNITED KINGDOM; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; AUSTRIA; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; FOOD CONTROL; FRANCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCEDURES; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SEROVAR ENTERITIDIS; SALMONELLA FOOD POISONING; SALMONELLA PHAGE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; VIROLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUSTRIA; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; CHILD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FRANCE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GERMANY; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTAURANTS; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; SALMONELLA FOOD POISONING; SALMONELLA PHAGES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85000399636     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2015.20.16.21098     Document Type: Article

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