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Whole genome sequencing analyses of Listeria monocytogenes that persisted in a milkshake machine for a year and caused illnesses in Washington State.
BMC microbiology - 15 Jun 2017
Li Zhen, Pérez-Osorio Ailyn, Wang Yu, Eckmann Kaye, Glover William A, Allard Marc W, Brown Eric W, Chen Yi
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BACKGROUND: In 2015, in addition to a United States multistate outbreak linked to contaminated ice cream, another outbreak linked to ice cream was reported in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. It was a hospital-acquired outbreak linked to milkshakes, made from contaminated ice cream mixes and milkshake maker, served to patients. Here we performed multiple analyses on isolates associated with this...
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