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Molecular subtyping to detect human listeriosis clusters
Brian D Sauders1, Esther D Fortes, Dale L Morse
1Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|June 5, 2003
Abstract:
We analyzed the diversity (Simpson's Index, D) and distribution of Listeria monocytogenes in human listeriosis cases in New York State (excluding New York City) from November 1996 to June 2000 by using automated ribotyping and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). We applied a scan statistic (p