An Overview of PulseNet USA Databases

TL;DR: This review focuses on smart food traceability that has the potential to significantly improve food safety in global food supply chains and new digital technologies, such as Internet-of-things (IoTs) and cloud computing, are discussed with the aim of providing readers with an overview of the exciting opportunities in smartfood traceability systems.

TL;DR: How microbial pathogen surveillance can be transformed by having an open access database along with Best Practices for contributors to follow is described, thereby advancing the One Health goals of Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable (FAIR) data.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors highlight the latest information on the factors responsible for food spoilage and the antimicrobial potential of electrolyzed water in fresh or processed plant and animal products.

TL;DR: Whole-genome multilocus sequence typing and single nucleotide polymorphism analyses provided equivalent phylogenetic relationships relevant to investigations; results were most useful when interpreted in context of epidemiological data.

TL;DR: This outbreak in the UK was linked with contemporaneous cases in Spain by WGS and it is concluded that UK and Spanish cases were exposed to a common source of Salmonella-contaminated chicken eggs.

TL;DR: This work has identified four well-documented foodborne pathogen events in which the epidemiology was concordant with routine phylogenomic analyses (reference-based SNP and wgMLST approaches), and proposed five benchmark datasets to help standardize comparison of current and future phylogenomic pipelines, and facilitate important cross-institutional collaborations.

TL;DR: PulseNet is a national surveillance network based in Atlanta at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to detect outbreaks of foodborne bacterial pathogens in real time, and its goal is to link information about people who have likely consumed the same contaminated food.