date:Feb 11, 2019
ack to the source faster. Identifying what causes a foodborne illness outbreak is key to stopping it and preventing further illnesses.
Using our method, investigators can better link cases of the same outbreak and better match isolates from food or food processing environments to isolates from sick people, he said. This will give investigators more confidence to implicate a specific source that is behind the outbreak.
On the UGA-Griffin campus, Dengs laboratory focuses on genomic epidemiology