Scientific Opinion on the evaluation of molecular typing methods for major food-borne microbiological hazards and their use for attribution modelling, outbreak investigation and scanning surveillance: Part 1 (evaluation of methods and applications)

EFSA Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

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epidemic potential; genotyping; molecular typing; outbreak; source attribution; whole genome sequencing

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EID: 85049633466     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18314732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2903/j.efsa.2013.3502     Document Type: Article

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