Article
Evaluation of Methods for Subtyping<i>Campylobacter jejuni</i>during an Outbreak Involving a Food Handler
1 Jul 2001
Abstract excerpt
In October 1998, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) assisted in an investigation of an outbreak of campylobacteriosis at a school in Salina, Kansas. Twenty-two isolates were submitted from the Kansas state public health laboratory to CDC, 9 associated with the outbreak and 13 epidemiologically unrelated sporadic isolates. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) using SmaI and SalI was initially...