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Molecular subtyping of Staphylococcus aureus from an outbreak associated with a food handler.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Feb 2002
Wei H L, Chiou C S
Abstract excerpt
On 6 May 2000, a staphylococcal food poisoning outbreak occurred at a high school, affecting 10 of the 356 students who attended the breakfast. Twenty-seven Staphylococcus aureus isolates, producing enterotoxin A (SEA), SEB-, or non-SEA-E, were recovered from 7 patients, 2 food handlers and left-overs. To investigate the outbreak, we genotyped the isolates by using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and...
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