Clinical microbiologists are often asked to determine the relatedness of a group of bacterial
isolates, that is, to type them. During the last decade, traditional methods of strain typing, …

Listeriosis is a serious invasive disease that primarily afflicts pregnant women, neonates and
immunocompromised adults. The causative organism, Listeria monocytogenes, is primarily …

During the 1980s, investigation of several large epidemics of listeriosis confirmed that
transmission of L. monocytogenes in food causes human disease. Progress in laboratory …

Standardized rapid pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) protocols for the subtyping of
Escherichia coli O157:H7, Salmonella serotypes, and Shigella species are described. These …

Salmonellosis is a major cause of bacterial enteric illness in both humans and animals. Each
year an estimated 1.4 million cases of salmonellosis occur among humans in the United …

… a function of its industry membership, B/M ratio, forecasted long-… B/M as a predictor variable
mainly because of the possibility that it is a risk proxy, but also because of evidence that the B…

This study shows that past trading volume provides an important link between “momentum”
and “value” strategies. Specifically, we find that firms with high (low) past turnover ratios …

PulseNet, the national molecular subtyping network for foodborne disease surveillance,
was established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and several state health …

… The adjusted beta change results in panel C are similar to those in panel B and ensure that
the risk changes reported in panel B are not the result of some mean reversion in betas that …

Background Embolic strokes of undetermined source represent 20% of ischemic strokes and
are associated with a high rate of recurrence. Anticoagulant treatment with rivaroxaban, an …