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Volume 22, Number 4—April 2016
Synopsis

Shiga Toxin–Producing Escherichia coli O157, England and Wales, 1983–2012

Natalie L. AdamsComments to Author , Lisa Byrne, Geraldine A. Smith, Richard Elson, John P. Harris, Roland Salmon, Robert Smith, Sarah J. O’Brien, Goutam K. Adak, and Claire Jenkins
Author affiliations: Public Health England, London, UK (N.L. Adams, L. Byrne, G.A. Smith, R. Elson, J.P. Harris, G.K. Adak, C. Jenkins); National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in Gastrointestinal Infections, Liverpool, UK (N.L. Adams, J.P. Harris, S.J. O’Brien, G.K. Adak); National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in Gastrointestinal Infections, Colindale, UK (N.L. Adams, G.K. Adak, C. Jenkins); Public Health Wales, Cardiff, UK (R. Salmon, R. Smith)

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Figure 1

Timeline of key events influencing the epidemiology (A), microbiology (B), and guidance and control (C) of STEC O157, England and Wales, 1983–2012. Numbers before 1989 are available only as an aggregate for that period and therefore cannot be presented by year. BSE, bovine spongiform encephalopathy; FMD, foot and mouth disease; MLVA, multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis; MOLIS, Modular Open Laboratory Information System; NESSS, National Enhanced Surveillance Scheme for STEC; PFGE, p

Figure 1. Timeline of key events influencing the epidemiology (A), microbiology (B), and guidance and control (C) of STEC O157, England and Wales, 1983–2012. Numbers before 1989 are available only as an aggregate for that period and therefore cannot be presented by year. BSE, bovine spongiform encephalopathy; FMD, foot and mouth disease; MLVA, multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis; MOLIS, Modular Open Laboratory Information System; NESSS, National Enhanced Surveillance Scheme for STEC; PFGE, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis; PT, phage type; STEC, Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli; VTEC, verocytotoxin–producing E. coli.

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