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Two listeria outbreaks caused by smoked fish consumption-using whole-genome sequencing for outbreak investigations.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Jul 2016
Gillesberg Lassen S, Ethelberg S, Björkman J T, Jensen T, Sørensen G, Kvistholm Jensen A, Müller L, Nielsen E M, Mølbak K
Abstract excerpt
Listeria monocytogenes may contaminate and persist in food production facilities and cause repeated, seemingly sporadic, illnesses over extended periods of time. We report on the investigation of two such concurrent outbreaks. We compared patient isolates and available isolates from foods and food production facilities by use of whole-genome sequencing and subsequent multilocus sequence type and single nucleotide...
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