Journal article
Epidemiologic Typing of Salmonella enterica Serotype Enteritidis in a Canada-Wide Outbreak of Gastroenteritis due to Contaminated Cheese
Abstract
A major Canada-wide outbreak of gastroenteritis due to Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis phage type (PT) 8 occurred in 1998, and this was traced to contaminated cheese in a commercial lunch pack product. Phage typing and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis linked the clinical and cheese isolates of serotype Enteritidis but failed to differentiate outbreak from nonoutbreak PT 8 strains. Further differentiation was made by biotyping based on …
Authors
Ahmed R; Soule G; Demczuk WH; Clark C; Khakhria R; Ratnam S; Marshall S; Ng L-K; Woodward DL; Johnson WM
Journal
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Vol. 38, No. 6, pp. 2403–2406
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Publication Date
June 2000
DOI
10.1128/jcm.38.6.2403-2406.2000
ISSN
0095-1137