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DNA fingerprinting of outbreaks

Recorded year1996

CDC's PulseNet links food poisoning cases across states by matching bacterial DNA patterns, later switching to whole-genome sequencing.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.