TY - JOUR AU - Swaminathan, Bala AU - Barrett, Timothy AU - Hunter, Susan AU - Tauxe, Robert T1 - PulseNet: The Molecular Subtyping Network for Foodborne Bacterial Disease Surveillance, United States T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2001 VL - 7 IS - 3 SP - 382 SN - 1080-6059 AB - PulseNet, the national molecular subtyping network for foodborne disease surveillance, was established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and several state health department laboratories to facilitate subtyping bacterial foodborne pathogens for epidemiologic purposes. PulseNet, which began in 1996 with 10 laboratories typing a single pathogen (Escherichia coli O157:H7), now includes 46 state and 2 local public health laboratories and the food safety laboratories of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Four foodborne pathogens (E. coli O157:H7; nontyphoidal Salmonella serotypes, Listeria monocytogenes and Shigella) are being subtyped, and other KW - foodborne disease KW - outbreaks KW - surveillance KW - molecular subtyping KW - DNA fingerprinting KW - pulsed-field gel electrophoresis KW - PFGE KW - Escherichia coli O157 KW - Salmonella KW - Listeria KW - Shigella KW - PulseNet KW - United States DO - 10.3201/eid0703.017303 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/7/3/01-7303_article ER - End of Reference