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O-27 - Bulk raw eggs from NE pasteurization plants yielded SE 10% vs 0% elsewhere, tracking human illness geography

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Cultures of bulk raw eggs from pasteurization plants in the Northeast yielded S. enteritidis more often (10%) than eggs from other US regions (0%), matching the geographic distribution of human SE illness.
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S-20 - St Louis 1988 - Emergence of grade A eggs as a major source of Salmonella enteritidis infections
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cultures of bulk raw eggs from pasteurization plants in the Northeast more frequently yielded S enteritidis (10%) than did eggs from other regions of the United States (0%)

Direct microbiological confirmation that eggs themselves carried SE, geographically concordant with the human-illness pattern.

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