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- Title
Pulsed-field Gel Electrophoresis for Salmonella Infection Surveillance, Texas, USA, 2007.
- Authors
Long, Stephen G.; DuPont, Herbert L.; Gaul, Linda; Arafat, Raouf R.; Selwyn, Beatrice J.; Rogers, Joan; Casey, Eric
- Abstract
To identify sources of transmission for area clusters, in 2007 the Houston Department of Health and Human Services conducted an 8-month study of enhanced surveillance of Salmonella infection. Protocol included patient interviews and linking the results of interviews to clusters of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis patterns detected by the local PulseNet laboratory.
- Subjects
TEXAS; SALMONELLA diseases; PULSED-field gel electrophoresis; PUBLIC health; DNA fingerprinting; BACTERIA; INFECTIOUS disease transmission
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2010, Vol 16, Issue 6, p983
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3201/edi1606.091276