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Volume 7, Number 3—June 2001
Synopsis

PulseNet: The Molecular Subtyping Network for Foodborne Bacterial Disease Surveillance, United States

Bala SwaminathanComments to Author , Timothy J. Barrett, Susan B. Hunter, Robert V. Tauxe, and the CDC PulseNet Task Force
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia USA

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Figure 3

Reported cases of culture-confirmed Escherichia coli O157:H7 infection and percentage of surveyed laboratories routinely testing all stool specimens for E. coli O157:H7, New Jersey, January 1991 through July 1994 (10).

Figure 3. . Reported cases of culture-confirmed Escherichia coli O157:H7 infection and percentage of surveyed laboratories routinely testing all stool specimens for E. coli O157:H7, New Jersey, January 1991 through July 1994 (10).

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1The CDC PulseNet Task Force includes John Allan, Michelle Bird, Daniel Cameron, Wallis DeWitt, Thomas Donkar, Collette Fitzgerald, Judy Gaither, Lewis Graves, Peggy Hayes, Jared Kerr, Kristy Kubota, Mary Ann Lambert-Fair, Susan Maslanka, Loretta McCroskey, Jeremy Miller, Heather Noll, Efrain Ribot, Nicole Tucker, Susan Van Duyne, and the authors.

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