DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING (MLST) SUBTYPING STRATEGY FOR TRACKING THE FARM-TO-FORK TRANSMISSION OF ESCHERICHIA COLI O

Agriculture & Biology

1. Escherichia coli O157 100%
2. farm to fork 85%
3. multilocus sequence typing 78%
4. pulsed-field gel electrophoresis 43%
5. Escherichia coli 33%
6. methodology 21%
7. hemolytic uremic syndrome 20%
8. ground beef 16%
9. fresh produce 15%
10. cattle 15%
11. foodborne illness 14%
12. food pathogens 14%
13. spinach 13%
14. DNA 13%
15. lettuce 12%
16. diarrhea 12%
17. food safety 12%
18. beef 11%
19. complement 10%
20. intestines 10%
21. sequence analysis 9%
22. protocols 9%
23. genomics 8%
24. nucleotide sequences 8%
25. organisms 7%
26. testing 5%