Open AccessLaboratory Investigation of Salmonella enterica serovar Poona Outbreak in California: Comparison of Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE) and Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) Results
Author(s) -
Varvara K. Kozyreva,
John Crandall,
Ashley Sabol,
Alyssa Poe,
Peng Zhang,
Jeniffer Concepción-Acevedo,
Morgan N Schroeder,
Darlene Wagner,
Jeffrey Higa,
Eija Trees,
Vishnu Chaturvedi
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
plos currents
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.282
H-Index - 49
ISSN - 2157-3999
DOI - 10.1371/currents.outbreaks.1bb3e36e74bd5779bc43ac3a8dae52e6
Subject(s) - pulsed field gel electrophoresis , outbreak , multilocus sequence typing , salmonella enterica , biology , contig , whole genome sequencing , genome , salmonella , genotyping , genetics , virology , genotype , gene , bacteria
Recently, Salmonella enterica serovar Poona caused a multistate outbreak, with 245 out of 907 cases occurring in California. We report a comparison of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) results with whole genome sequencing (WGS) for genotyping of Salmonella Poona isolates.