State Success Stories

PulseNet key to solving 2010 E. coli outbreak linked to lettuce.
PulseNet was critical at every stage of an E. coli outbreak investigation in MI, OH and NY linked to lettuce

PulseNet helps Washington public health solve largest Salmonella outbreak in recent history.
Collaboration between Washington public health and PulseNet was key to recalling 523,000 pounds of pork products

With PulseNet, handful of E. coli cases reveal multistate outbreak, prompt huge recall
Read how Ohio and Michigan used PulseNet to discover a restaurant outbreak that led to a recall of 1.8 million pounds of ground beef.

How did PulseNet, PetNET, and Michigan microbiologists link a Salmonella outbreak to an unlikely source?
Microbiologists in Michigan discovered that the PFGE pattern from contaminated dog food matched PFGE patterns from human illnesses in the US and Canada.

Stopping Listeria required an arsenal of tools and an army of experts
Learn how Maryland and Virginia prompted a soft cheese recall by detecting Listeria through PFGE and WGS methods.

Utah raw milk outbreak was difficult – but not impossible – to stop
Utah Department of Health (UDOH) used PFGE to find strain of Campylobacter in infected raw milk.

Virginia: PFGE and whole genome sequencing show Salmonella outbreak who’s boss
Whole genome sequencing (WGS) information used in Virginia to strengthen correlation between Salmonella Enteritidis isolates and support epidemiologists’ investigation.