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a Salmonella cluster with a common food contamination
source. As we navigate the changing landscape of molecular
testing for disease surveillance, it is important to document
investigations that warrant a swift multidisciplinary response,
specifically when highly related isolates in both food and
clinical illness are identified.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors thank the NYSDOH Wadsworth Center
Applied Genomic Technologies Core for sequencing
the isolates listed in Table 1 and the Wadsworth Center
Bioinformatics Core for high-quality SNP analysis, in addition
to William Wolfgang, Lisa Thompson, Michelle Dickinson,
and Amy Saylors from the Wadsworth Center Laboratories.

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