A selection of publications about and by PulseNet participants.
Parsons MB, Cooper KL, Kubota KA, Puhr N, Simington S, Calimlim PS, Schoonmaker-Bopp D, Bopp C, Swaminathan B, Gerner-Smidt P, Ribot EM.
PulseNet USA standardized pulsed-field gel electrophoresis protocol for subtyping of Vibrio parahaemolyticus.
Foodborne Pathog Dis. 2007 Fall;4(3):285-92.
Hyytiä-Trees E, Smole SC, Fields PA, Swaminathan B, Ribot EM.
Second generation subtyping: a proposed PulseNet protocol for multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 (STEC O157).
Foodborne Pathog Dis. 2006 Spring;3(1):118-31.
Ribot EM, Fair MA, Gautom R, Cameron DN, Hunter SB, Swaminathan B, Barrett TJ.
Standardization of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis protocols for the subtyping of Escherichia coli O157:H7, Salmonella, and Shigella for PulseNet.
Foodborne Pathog Dis. 2006 Spring;3(1):59-67.
Cooper KL, Luey CK, Bird M, Terajima J, Nair GB, Kam KM, Arakawa E, Safa A, Cheung DT, Law CP, Watanabe H, Kubota K, Swaminathan B, Ribot EM.
Development and validation of a PulseNet standardized pulsed-field gel electrophoresis protocol for subtyping of Vibrio cholerae.
Foodborne Pathog Dis. 2006 Spring;3(1):51-8.
Barrett TJ, Gerner-Smidt P, Swaminathan B.
Interpretation of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis patterns in foodborne disease investigations and surveillance.
Foodborne Pathog Dis. 2006 Spring;3(1):20-31.
Hunter SB, Vauterin P, Lambert-Fair MA, Van Duyne MS, Kubota K, Graves L, Wrigley D, Barrett T, Ribot E.
Establishment of a universal size standard strain for use with the PulseNet standardized pulsed-field gel electrophoresis protocols: converting the national databases to the new size standard.
J Clin Microbiol. 2005 Mar;43(3):1045-50.
Ribot EM, Fitzgerald C, Kubota K, Swaminathan B, Barrett TJ.
Rapid pulsed-field gel electrophoresis protocol for subtyping of Campylobacter jejuni.
J Clin Microbiol. 2001 May;39(5):1889-94.
Graves LM, Swaminathan B.
PulseNet standardized protocol for subtyping Listeria monocytogenes by macrorestriction and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis.
Int J Food Microbiol. 2001 Apr 11;65(1-2):55-62.
Swaminathan B, Gerner-Smidt P, Ng LK, Lukinmaa S, Kam KM, Rolando S, Gutiérrez EP, Binsztein N.
Building PulseNet International: an interconnected system of laboratory networks to facilitate timely public health recognition and response to foodborne disease outbreaks and emerging foodborne diseases.
Foodborne Pathog Dis. 2006 Spring;3(1):36-50.
Smith KE, Medus C, Meyer SD, Boxrud DJ, Leano F, Hedberg CW, Elfering K, Braymen C, Bender JB, Danila RN.
Outbreaks of salmonellosis in Minnesota (1998 through 2006) associated with frozen, microwaveable, breaded, stuffed chicken products.
J Food Prot. 2008 Oct;71(10):2153-60.
Fuller CC, Jawahir SL, Leano FT, Bidol SA, Signs K, Davis C, Holmes Y, Morgan J, Teltow G, Jones B, Sexton RB, Davis GL, Braden CR, Patel NJ, Deasy MP 3rd, Smith KE.
A multi-state Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak associated with frozen vacuum-packed rodents used to feed snakes.
Zoonoses Public Health. 2008 Oct;55(8-10):481-7.
Grant J, Wendelboe AM, Wendel A, Jepson B, Torres P, Smelser C, Rolfs RT.
Spinach-associated Escherichia coli O157:H7 outbreak, Utah and New Mexico, 2006.
Emerg Infect Dis. 2008 Oct;14(10):1633-6.
Boehmer TK, Bamberg WM, Ghosh TS, Cronquist A, Fornof ME, Cichon MK, Gershman K, Vogt RL.
Health care-associated outbreak of Salmonella Tennessee in a neonatal intensive care unit.
Am J Infect Control. 2008 Jun 14.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Ongoing multistate outbreak of Escherichia coli serotype O157:H7 infections associated with consumption of fresh spinach--United States, September 2006.
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2006 Sep 29;55(38):1045-6.
Kathariou S, Graves L, Buchrieser C, Glaser P, Siletzky RM, Swaminathan B.
Involvement of closely related strains of a new clonal group of Listeria monocytogenes in the 1998-99 and 2002 multistate outbreaks of foodborne listeriosis in the United States.
Foodborne Pathog Dis. 2006 Fall;3(3):292-302.
Sandt CH, Krouse DA, Cook CR, Hackman AL, Chmielecki WA, Warren NG.
The key role of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis in investigation of a large multiserotype and multistate food-borne outbreak of Salmonella infections centered in Pennsylvania.
J Clin Microbiol. 2006 Sep;44(9):3208-12.
Swaminathan B, Barrett TJ, Fields P.
Surveillance for human Salmonella infections in the United States.
J AOAC Int. 2006 Mar-Apr;89(2):553-9. Review.
Guevara RE, Tormey MP, Nguyen DM, Mascola L.
Listeria monocytogenes in platelets: a case report.
Transfusion. 2006 Feb;46(2):305-9.
Hedberg CW, Besser JM.
Commentary: cluster evaluation, PulseNet, and public health practice.
Foodborne Pathog Dis. 2006 Spring;3(1):32-5. No abstract available.
Gerner-Smidt P, Hise K, Kincaid J, Hunter S, Rolando S, Hyytiä-Trees E, Ribot EM, Swaminathan B; Pulsenet Taskforce.
PulseNet USA: a five-year update.
Foodborne Pathog Dis. 2006 Spring;3(1):9-19. Review.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Multistate outbreak of Salmonella typhimurium infections associated with eating ground beef--United States, 2004.
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2006 Feb 24;55(7):180-2.
Gerner-Smidt P, Kincaid J, Kubota K, Hise K, Hunter SB, Fair MA, Norton D, Woo-Ming A, Kurzynski T, Sotir MJ, Head M, Holt K, Swaminathan B.
Molecular surveillance of shiga toxigenic Escherichia coli O157 by PulseNet USA.
J Food Prot. 2005 Sep;68(9):1926-31.
Okwumabua O, O'Connor M, Shull E, Strelow K, Hamacher M, Kurzynski T, Warshauer D.
Characterization of Listeria monocytogenes isolates from food animal clinical cases: PFGE pattern similarity to strains from human listeriosis cases.
FEMS Microbiol Lett. 2005 Aug 15;249(2):275-81.
Laine ES, Scheftel JM, Boxrud DJ, Vought KJ, Danila RN, Elfering KM, Smith KE.
Outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections associated with nonintact blade-tenderized frozen steaks sold by door-to-door vendors.
J Food Prot. 2005 Jun;68(6):1198-202.
Graves LM, Hunter SB, Ong AR, Schoonmaker-Bopp D, Hise K, Kornstein L, DeWitt WE, Hayes PS, Dunne E, Mead P, Swaminathan B.
Microbiological aspects of the investigation that traced the 1998 outbreak of listeriosis in the United States to contaminated hot dogs and establishment of molecular subtyping-based surveillance for Listeria monocytogenes in the PulseNet network.
J Clin Microbiol. 2005 May;43(5):2350-5.
Gupta A, Fontana J, Crowe C, Bolstorff B, Stout A, Van Duyne S, Hoekstra MP, Whichard JM, Barrett TJ, Angulo FJ; The National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System PulseNet Working Group.
Emergence of multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica serotype Newport infections resistant to expanded-spectrum cephalosporins in the United States.
J Infect Dis. 2003 Dec 1;188(11):1707-16. Epub 2003 Nov 18.
Swaminathan B, Barrett TJ, Hunter SB, Tauxe RV; CDC PulseNet Task Force.
PulseNet: the molecular subtyping network for foodborne bacterial disease surveillance, United States.
Emerg Infect Dis. 2001 May-Jun;7(3):382-9.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Multistate outbreak of listeriosis--United States, 2000.
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2000 Dec 22;49(50):1129-30. Erratum in: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2001 Feb 16;50(6):101.
Ransom G, Kaplan B.
USDA uses PulseNet for food safety.
J Am Vet Med Assoc. 1998 Oct 15;213(8):1107.
Bucher O, Holley RA, Ahmed R, Tabor H, Nadon C, Ng LK, D'Aoust JY.
Occurrence and characterization of Salmonella from chicken nuggets, strips, and pelleted broiler feed.
J Food Prot. 2007 Oct;70(10):2251-8.
Gilmour MW, Tabor H, Wang G, Clark CG, Tracz DM, Olson AB, Mascarenhas M, Karmali MA, Mailman T, Ng LK.
Isolation and Genetic Characterization of a Coinfection of Non-O157 Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli.
J Clin Microbiol. 2007 Nov;45(11):3771-3. Epub 2007 Sep 5.
Currie A, MacDonald J, Ellis A, Siushansian J, Chui L, Charlebois M, Peermohamed M, Everett D, Fehr M, Ng LK; Investigation Team Canadian Field Epidemiology Program.
Outbreak of Escherichia coli 0157:H7 infections associated with consumption of beef donair.
J Food Prot. 2007 Jun;70(6):1483-8.
Lorenzo Pezzoli, Richard Elson, Christine L. Little, Hopi Yip, Ian Fisher, Ruth Yishai, Emilia Anis, Lea Valinsky, Matthew Biggerstaff, Nehal Patel, Henry Mather, Derek J. Brown, John E. Coia, Wilfrid van Pelt, Eva M. Nielsen, Steen Ethelberg, Elizabeth de Pinna, Michael D. Hampton, Tansy Peters, John Threlfall
Packed with Salmonella Investigation of an International Outbreak of Salmonella Senftenberg Infection Linked to Contamination of Prepacked Basil in 2007
Foodborne Pathogens and Disease. October 1, 2008, 5(5): 661-668.
PDF 159KBWasyl D, ElSedawy A, Lukinmaa S.
PulseNet Europe - International Molecular Subtyping Network for Food-borne Disease Surveillance
Medycyna Weterynaryjna - Veterinary Medicine - Science and Practice 2008 64 (2):123-126.
Bolton DJ, Meally A, McDowell D, Blair IS.
A survey for serotyping, antibiotic resistance profiling and PFGE characterization of and the potential multiplication of restaurant Salmonella isolates.
J Appl Microbiol. 2007 Nov;103(5):1681-90.
Kérouanton A, Marault M, Lailler R, Weill FX, Feurer C, Espié E, Brisabois A.
Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis subtyping database for foodborne Salmonella enterica serotype discrimination.
Foodborne Pathog Dis. 2007 Fall;4(3):293-303.
Martin P, Jacquet C, Goulet V, Vaillant V, De Valk H; Participants in the PulseNet Europe Feasibility Study.
Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of Listeria monocytogenes strains: the PulseNet Europe Feasibility Study.
Foodborne Pathog Dis. 2006 Fall;3(3):303-8.
Nielsen EM, Scheutz F, Torpdahl M.
Continuous surveillance of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli infections by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis shows that most infections are sporadic.
Foodborne Pathog Dis. 2006 Spring;3(1):81-7.
Gerner-Smidt P, Scheutz F.
Standardized pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli: the PulseNet Europe Feasibility Study.
Foodborne Pathog Dis. 2006 Spring;3(1):74-80.
Kam KM, Luey KY, Chiu AW, Law CP, Leung SF.
Molecular characterization of Salmonella enterica Serotype Typhi isolates by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis in Hong Kong, 2000-2004.
Foodborne Pathog Dis. 2007 Spring;4(1):41-9.
Huang KY, Hong YW, Wang MH, Chu C, Su LH, Chiou CS, Chiu CH.
Molecular epidemiology and antimicrobial susceptibility of Salmonella enterica serotype Stanley isolates in Taiwan.
J Microbiol Immunol Infect. 2007 Oct;40(5):411-8.
Liang SY, Watanabe H, Terajima J, Li CC, Liao JC, Tung SK, Chiou CS.
Multilocus Variable-Number Tandem-Repeat Analysis for Molecular Typing of Shigella sonnei.
J Clin Microbiol. 2007 Nov;45(11):3574-80. Epub 2007 Sep 19.
Luey CK, Chu YW, Cheung TK, Law CC, Chu MY, Cheung DT, Kam KM.
Rapid pulsed-field gel electrophoresis protocol for subtyping of Streptococcus suis serotype 2.
J Microbiol Methods. 2007 Mar;68(3):648-50. Epub 2006 Dec 8.
Lou J, Diao BW, Wang HX, Cui ZG, Qi GM, Kan B.
[Establishment of fluorescent amplified fragment length polymorphism in Vibrio cholerae and evaluation in molecular typing]
Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi. 2007 Jun;28(6):580-5. Chinese.
Zhu RF, Gong ZL, Ye CY, Cui ZG, Jin D, Ran L, Xu K, Wang LX, Chen WW.
[Study on molecular typing by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of food Listeria monocytogenes isolates from eight province (municipalities) of China]
Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi. 2007 May;28(5):464-7. Chinese.
Li W, Cui ZG, Zhang Z, Tian KC, Zhong HJ, Zhu FC, Liang WL, Zhang LJ, Kan B.
[Molecular typing of Salmonella paratyphi A isolates from four provinces with pulse-field gel electrophoresis]
Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi. 2006 Oct;27(10):871-4. Chinese.
Jin D, Cui ZG, Xiao YC, Wang X, Gu F, Xia SL, Hu WF, Yang JC, Wang H, Gu L, Xu JG, Kan B, Jing HQ.
[Molecular typing of the pathogenic Yersinia enterocolitica strains with pulsed field gel electrophores isisolated in China]
Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi. 2006 Aug;27(8):677-80. Chinese.
Terajima J, Izumiya H, Iyoda S, Mitobe J, Miura M, Watanabe H.
Effectiveness of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for the early detection of diffuse outbreaks due to Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in Japan.
Foodborne Pathog Dis. 2006 Spring;3(1):68-73.
Gilpin B, Cornelius A, Robson B, Boxall N, Ferguson A, Nicol C, Henderson T.
Application of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis to identify potential outbreaks of campylobacteriosis in New Zealand.
J Clin Microbiol. 2006 Feb;44(2):406-12.
Chu YW, Chu MY, Luey KY, Ngan YW, Tsang KL, Kam KM.
Genetic relatedness and quinolone resistance of Campylobacter jejuni strains isolated in 2002 in Hong Kong.
J Clin Microbiol. 2004 Jul;42(7):3321-3.
Kam KM, Luey CK, Tsang YM, Law CP, Chu MY, Cheung TL, Chiu AW.
Molecular subtyping of Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139 by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis in Hong Kong: correlation with epidemiological events from 1994 to 2002.
J Clin Microbiol. 2003 Oct;41(10):4502-11.
Watanabe H, Terajima J, Izumiya H, Iyoda S, Tamura K.
[PulseNet Japan: surveillance system for the early detection of diffuse outbreak based on the molecular epidemiological method]
Kansenshogaku Zasshi. 2002 Oct;76(10):842-8. Japanese.
Terajima J, Izumiya H, Tamura K, Watanabe H.
[PulseNet Japan--network system for the utilization of epidemiological information and the results of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis]
Nippon Rinsho. 2002 Jun;60(6):1070-6. Review. Japanese.
Muñoz N, Realpe ME, Castañeda E, Agudelo CI.
[Characterization by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of Salmonella typhimurium isolates recovered in the acute diarrheal disease surveillance program in Colombia, 1997-2004]
Biomedica. 2006 Sep;26(3):397-407. Spanish.
Pichel M, González Fraga S, Terragno R, Mulki J, Gentile A, Kremer C, Mola AM, Noseda R, Binsztein N.
Short report: analysis of clonal relationship among Shigella sonnei isolates circulating in Argentina.
Epidemiol Infect. 2007 May;135(4):681-7. Epub 2006 Sep 26. Review.
Salve A, Pichel M, Wiesner M, Hidalgo M, Terragno R, Alvarez A, Agudelo CI, Castañeda E, Binsztein N.
Molecular subtyping of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi isolates from Colombia and Argentina.
Foodborne Pathog Dis. 2006 Spring;3(1):142-52.
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