Volume 7, Number 3—June 2001
Synopsis
PulseNet: The Molecular Subtyping Network for Foodborne Bacterial Disease Surveillance, United States
Bala Swaminathan
, Timothy J. Barrett, Susan B. Hunter, Robert V. Tauxe, and the CDC PulseNet Task Force
, Timothy J. Barrett, Susan B. Hunter, Robert V. Tauxe, and the CDC PulseNet Task Force
Table 1
Interlaboratory reproducibility of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis patterns of 64 Escherichia coli isolates by eight laboratories following the PulseNet standardized protocol
| Laboratory (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| Matched expected pattern | 64/64a | 63/63 | 59/63 | 62/64 | 62/64 | 62/64 | 61/64 | 61/64 |
| (100) | (100) | (93.7) | (96.9) | (96.9) | (96.9) | (95.3) | (95.3) | |
| < 1-band difference from expected pattern | 64/64 | 63/63 | 62/63 | 64/64 | 63/64 | 64/64 | 64/64 | 64/64 |
| (100) | (100) | (98.4) | (100) | (98.4) | (100) | (100) | (100) | |
aValues represent no. of patterns fitting in the specified category/no. of isolates tested.
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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