Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jul 2020)

Linking Epidemiology and Whole-Genome Sequencing to Investigate Salmonella Outbreak, Massachusetts, USA, 2018

  • Eric L. Vaughn,
  • Quynh T. Vo,
  • Johanna Vostok,
  • Tracy Stiles,
  • Andrew Lang,
  • Catherine M. Brown,
  • R. Monina Klevens,
  • Lawrence Madoff

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2607.200048
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 7
pp. 1538 – 1541

Abstract

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Cross-discipline collaboration among state and local health departments improved foodborne illness surveillance for a 2018 Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis outbreak in Massachusetts, USA. Prompt linking of epidemiologic and laboratory data and implementation of in-state whole-genome sequencing and analysis improved public health surveillance capacity for outbreak detection and control.

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