Creating Student Sleuths: How a Team of Graduate Students Helped Solve an Outbreak of Salmonella Heidelberg Infections Associated with Kosher Broiled Chicken Livers

Since 2009, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) has received FoodCORE funding to hire graduate students to conduct in-depth food exposure interviews of salmonellosis case patients. In 2011, an increase in the number of Salmonella Heidelberg infections with pulsed-field gel electrophoresis Xba I pattern JF6X01.0022 among observant Jewish communities in New York and New Jersey was investigated. As this pattern is...