Anatomy of the peanut salmonella outbreak

Joey Ivansco jivansco@ajc.com

Microbiologist Kara Cooper loads a gel for Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE), the method used for subtyping or fingerprinting food-borne bacteria, at the Pulse Net lab at the CDC. Over 325,000 such DNA fingerprints exist in a central database.