Escherichia coli Cluster Evaluation
James R. Johnson
Emerging Infectious Diseases · 2007
doi:10.3201/eid1303.041085 (opens in a new tab)
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Abstract
important issues regarding molecular profiling as an epidemiologic tool (1). First, since all living organisms are related, the goal of genomic profiling in public health epidemiology is not really to determine “whether such isolates are truly related ” (1) (they are), but to define the degree of similarity—or, more specifically, to determine whether isolates are sufficiently closely related that the probability of their deriving immediately from the same point source is high enough to warrant epidemiologic investigation. Second, definitive assessment of
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