Barrett, L., P. Gerner-Smidt, et al. (2006). Interpretation of Pulsed Gel Electrophoresis Patterns in Foodborne Disease Investigations and Surveillance. Foodborne Pathogens and Disease. S. P. Oliver, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 3: 20-31.

Beatty ME, Adcock PM, Smith SW, Quinlan K, Kamimoto LA, Rowe SY, Scott K, Conover C, Varchmin T, Bopp CA, Greene KD, Bibb B, Slutsker L, Mintz ED. Clin Infect Dis. 2006 Feb 1;42(3):329-34. Epidemic diarrhea due to enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli.

Brooks JT, Ochieng JB, Kumar L, Okoth G, Shapiro RL, Wells JG, Bird M, Bopp C, Chege W, Betty ME, Chiller T, Vulule JM, Mintz E, Slutsker L. Clin Infect Dis. 2006 Aug 15;43(4):393-401. Surveillance for bacterial diarrhea and antimicrobial resistance in rural western Kenya, 1997-2003.

Cooper, K., C. Luey, et al. (2006). Development and Validation of a PulseNet Standardized Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis Protocol for Subtyping of Vibrio cholerae. Foodborne Pathogens and Disease. S. P. Oliver, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 3: 51-58.

Cramer EH, Blanton CJ, Blanton LH, Vaughan GH Jr, Bopp CA, Forney DL; Vessel Sanitation Program Environmental Health Inspection Team. Am J Prev Med. 2006 Mar 30(3):252-7. Epidemiology of gastroenteritis on cruise ships, 2001-2004.

Devasia RA, Jones TF, Ward J, Stafford L, Hardin H, Bopp C, Beatty M, Mintz E, Schaffner W. Am J Med. 2006 Feb;119(2):168.e7-10. Endemically acquired foodborne outbreak of enterotoxin-producing Escherichia coli serotype O169:H41.

Germer-Smidt, P., K. Hise, et al. (2006). "PulseNet: A Five-Year Update." Foodborne Pathogens and Disease 3(1): 9-19.

Gerner-Smidt, P. (2006). PulseNet USA: A Five-Year Update. Foodborne Pathogens and Disease. S. P. Oliver, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 3: 9-19.

Gerner-Smidt, P. and F. Scheutz (2006). Standardized Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli: The PulseNet Europe Feasibility Study. Foodborne Pathogens and Disease. S. P. Oliver, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 3: 74.

Gottlieb, S., E. Newbern, et al. (2006). "Multistate Outbreak of Listeriosis Linked to Turkey Deli Meat and Subsequent Changes in US Regulatory Policy." Clinical Infectious Disease 42: 29-36.

Hyytia-Trees, E., S. Smole, et al. (2006). Second Generation Subtyping: A Proposed PulseNet Protocol for Multiple- Locus Variable-Number Tandem Repeat Analysis of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli 0157 (STEC 0157). Foodborne Pathogens and Disease. S. P. Oliver, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 3: 118-131.

Hyytiä-Trees, E., Smole, S. C., Fields, P. I.., Swaminathan, B., and Ribot, E. M. (2006) Second generation subtyping: a proposed PulseNet protocol for multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 (STEC O157). Foodborne Pathog. Dis. 3, 118-131.

Hyytia-Trees, E., Gerner-Smidt, P., and Ribot, E. (2006) Use of Multiple-locus Variable-number Tandem Repeat Analysis (MLVA) to Further Characterize Shiga Toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) O157 Clusters Detected by PFGE in PulseNet USA. In: Abstracts of the 6 th International Symposium on Shiga Toxin (Verocytotoxin) –Producing Escherichia coli Infections. October 29-Nov 1, 2006, Melbourne, Australia. S. 142.

Kalluri P, Naheed A, Rahman S, Ansaruzzaman M, Faruque AS, Bird M, Khatun F, Bhuiyan NA, Nato F, Fournier JM, Bopp C, Breiman RF, Nair B, Mintz ED. Trop Med Int Health. 2006 Jan;11(1):49-55. Evaluation of three rapid diagnostic tests for cholera: does the skill level of the technician matter?

Ribot, E., M. Fair, et al. (2006). Standardization of Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis Protocols for the Subtyping of Escherichia coli 0157:H7, Salmonella, and Shigella for PulseNet. Foodborne Pathogens and Disease. S. P. Oliver, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 3: 59-67.

Swaminathan , B., P. Germer-Smidt, et al. (2006). Foodborne Disease and Reports. Foodborne Pathogens and Disease. S. P. Oliver, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 3: 1.

Swaminathan , B., P. Germer-Smidt, et al. (2006). Building PulseNet International : An Interconnected System of Laboratory Networks to Facilitate Timely Public Health Recognition and Response to Foodborne Disease Outbreaks and Emerging Foodborne Diseases. Foodborne Pathogens and Disease. S. P. Oliver, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 3: 36-50.

Swanson SJ, Snider C, Braden CR, Boxrud D, Wunschmann A, Rudroff JA, Lockett J, Smith KE. N Engl J Med. 2007 Jan 4;356(1):21-8. Multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium associated with pet rodents.

Zhang, W., Qi, W., Albert, T. J., Motiwala, A. S., Alland, D., Hyytiä-Trees, E. K., Ribot, E. M., Fields, P. I., Whittam, T. S., and Swaminathan, B. (2006) Probing genomic diversity and evolution of Escherichia coli O157 by single-nucleotide polymorphisms. Genome Res. published online Apr 10, 2006; doi:10.1101/gr.4759706.

"Characterization of Monophasic Variants of Salmonella." M.L. Mikoleit, J.R. McQuiston, S. Johnson, L.L. Gheesling, & P.I. Fields. Presented at the 106 th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology; Orlando, FL. May, 2006.

“Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Other Shiga Toxin-Producing E. coli (STEC)” October 2006, Denver, Colorado Colorado Laboratory Forum C. Bopp

”Global PulseNet Salmonella Typhi Database”. Presented 12/12/2006, Cairo, Egypt, PulseNet Middle East Consultation Meeting at WHO EMRO. 12/19/2006 in Nanjing, China, Fourth Update Meeting of PulseNet Asia Pacific in JiangSu CDC. A. ElSedawy.

"The Impact of Rapid and Molecular Tests for Infectious Disease Agents on Public Health" Clinical Laboratory Improvement Advisory Committee (CLIAC) Workgroup meeting, C. Bopp

“Laboratory Diagnosis of Salmonella, Shigella, Vibrio cholerae O1” February 2006, Nairobi, Kenya Kenya Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program C. Bopp

“Laboratory Aspects of Salmonella Outbreak Investigations” November 2006, CDC, Atlanta, GA Training Course: Methods for Identification and Serotyping of Salmonella spp. C. Bopp

“Summary of Meeting: Role of Commercial Diagnostic Laboratories in Public Health Surveillance, May 8, 2006” November 2006, CDC, Atlanta, GA.

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