date:Jun 07, 2012
d), Alabama (2 illnesses) and Florida (1 illness).
Officials in Alabama and Florida confirmed with Food Safety News that the pulse-field gel electrophoresis patterns -- the E. coli's DNA 'fingerprint' -- matched between the E. coli O145 clusters.
Additionally, a spokesman for the Tennessee Department of Health said that one Tennessee man had suffered an E. coli O145 infection around May 1, but he could not confirm if that infection was related to the outbreak in other states.
The confirmed