PulseNet: the molecular subtyping network for foodborne bacterial disease surveillance, United States.

By B. Swaminathan, T. Barrett, S. Hunter, R. Tauxe. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2001

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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 bacterial, viral, and parasitic organisms will be added soon.

Subfields: Biotechnology, Food Science

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Citations in the corpus

• The Salmonella In Silico Typing Resource (SISTR): An Open Web-Accessible Tool for Rapidly Typing and Subtyping Draft Salmonella Genome Assemblies (2016, background): “The transition towards an era of ‘genomic epidemiology’ will require linking of newly sequenced genomes with the isolates and traditional sub-typing data in databases such as PulseNet [27] and MLSTdb [28] in order to preserve relevant epidemiological information for public health investigations.”
• Recent Advances in Understanding Enteric Pathogenic Escherichia coli (2013, methodology): “Additionally, PulseNET was created to provide a database of standardized PFGE fingerprints, allowing for comparisons to aid in epidemiological investigations during outbreaks (11).”
• Standardization of Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis Protocols for the Subtyping of Escherichia coli O157:H7, Salmonella, and Shigella for PulseNet (2006, positive): “coli O157:H7 used from 1996 to early 1998, was evaluated by multiple laboratories to demonstrate its robustness and reproducibility prior to it full implementation in the PulseNet system (Swaminathan et al., 2001).”
• Fast and flexible bacterial genomic epidemiology with PopPUNK (2018, neutral): “However, despite the the standardisation of such approaches by PulseNet International (Swaminathan et al. 2001, 2006) , comparison of gel s between laboratories remains difficult.”
• Epidemiology of Escherichia coli O157:H7 Outbreaks, United States, 1982–2002 (2005, background): “PulseNet (30), the national network for comparing molecular subtypes of common foodborne bacterial pathogens, including E.”