Development, confirmation, and application of a seeded Escherichia coli process control organism to validate Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi environmental surveillance methods.

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (S. Typhi) is the causative agent of Typhoid fever. Blood culture is the gold standard for clinical diagnosis, but this is often difficult to employ in resource limited settings. Environmental surveillance of waste-impacted waters is a promising supplement to clinic...

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Main Authors: Sarah E Philo, Nicolette A Zhou, Lorraine M Lillis, Venkata Raghava, Dilip Abraham, Vinoth Kumar, Nirmal Kumar, Jonathan Rigby, Joanna Ciol Harrison, Christine S Fagnant-Sperati, Alexandra L Kossik, Angelo Q W Ong, Rachael Swanstrom, Elisabeth Burnor, Bethel Demeke, Nicola K Beck, Jeffry H Shirai, Stephen J Libby, David S Boyle, Nicholas Feasey, Gagandeep Kang, John Scott Meschke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2024-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0301624&type=printable