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. 2016 Nov;17(11):1499-1505.
doi: 10.15252/embr.201643128. Epub 2016 Sep 19.

Future challenges for tracking foodborne diseases: PulseNet, a 20-year-old US surveillance system for foodborne diseases, is expanding both globally and technologically

Efrain M Ribot  1 , Kelley B Hise  1
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Future challenges for tracking foodborne diseases: PulseNet, a 20-year-old US surveillance system for foodborne diseases, is expanding both globally and technologically

Efrain M Ribot et al. EMBO Rep. 2016 Nov.

Abstract

After 20 years of successfully tracking and preventing outbreaks of foodborne diseases, PulseNet, a US surveillance program, is implementing new diagnostic technologies and expanding its international cooperation with public health agencies.

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Figure 1. Map of PulseNet showing participating laboratories in the seven regions
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Figure 2. PulseNet International networks
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Figure 3. PulseNet 20th Anniversary Logo
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Figure 4. Total number of PFGE pattern submissions to PulseNet 1996–2015
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Figure 5. PulseNet pattern submissions by organism 1996–2015
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Figure 6. Listeria surveillance pre and post implementation of WGS
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Figure 7. Comparison of Salmonella serovar Heidelberg isolates from outbreaks in three different states that were indistinguishable by PFGE. The higher discriminatory power of WGS proofed to be critical in clarifying the epidemiological picture
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