A multinational listeriosis outbreak and the importance of sharing genomic data

Affiliations

• ¹ Office of Analytics and Outreach, Center of Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, US Food and Drug Administration, College Park, MD 20740, USA. Electronic address: james.pettengill@fda.hhs.gov.
• ² Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Science Branch, Food Safety Science Directorate, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
• ³ US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
• ⁴ Coordinated Outbreak and Response Network, Center of Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, US Food and Drug Administration, College Park, MD 20740, USA.
• ⁵ Office of Analytics and Outreach, Center of Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, US Food and Drug Administration, College Park, MD 20740, USA.
• ⁶ Office of Regulatory Science, Center of Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, US Food and Drug Administration, College Park, MD 20740, USA.