| salmonella serotype enteritidis infections among workers producing poultry vaccine--maine, november-december 2006. | on november 15, 2006, the maine department of health and human services (mdhhs) was notified of a case of salmonellosis (a nationally notifiable disease) in an employee of a facility that produced poultry vaccine. when a second case of salmonellosis in another employee at the same facility was reported on november 25, mdhhs began an outbreak investigation. results of that investigation suggested that 21 employees of the facility became ill during a 1-month period from exposure to a strain of sal ... | 2007 | 17728692 |
| molecular characterization of salmonella enteritidis isolates from maine poultry and poultry farm environments. | eighty-six salmonella enteritidis isolates obtained during a surveillance program of poultry farms in maine were subjected to phage-typing, plasmid profiling and fingerprinting, outer-membrane polypeptide analysis, and antimicrobial sensitivity testing. isolates were obtained from a variety of sources, including poultry-farm environmental samples, chicken organ samples, human stool samples, cat feces, and live-trapped rats and mice. these isolates were compared with 21 s. enteritidis isolates or ... | 1992 | 1627105 |