COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TOOLS AND APPROACHES FOR SOURCE TRACKING LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES IN A FOOD FACILITY USING WHOLE-GENOME SEQUENCE DATA

Comparative Analysis of Tools and Approaches for Source Tracking Listeria monocytogenes in a Food Facility Using Whole-Genome Sequence Data

As WGS is increasingly used by food industry to characterize pathogen isolates, users are challenged by the variety of analysis approaches available, ranging from methods that require extensive bioinformatics expertise to commercial software packages.This study aimed to assess the impact of analysis pipelines (i.e., different hqSNP pipelines, a cg/

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Spontaneous Pathologic Splenic Rupture in a Patient with Plasmodium falciparum Infection, First Case Reported in Israel

Travelers exposed to malaria may develop severe disease and complications.A less well-known complication is spontaneous pathologic splenic rupture, which is still under-reported and has never been reported in Israel.In Kudzu Root this paper, we report a 23 years old healthy young man presenting in the emergency department, two weeks after coming ba

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