TY - JOUR
TI - Salmonellosis outbreak with novel Salmonella enterica subspecies
enterica serotype (11:z41:e,n,z15) attributable to sesame products in
five European countries, 2016 to 2017
AU - Meinen, Anika
AU - Simon, Sandra
AU - Banerji, Sangeeta
AU - Szabo, Istvan
AU - and Malorny, Burkhard
AU - Borowiak, Maria
AU - Hadziabdic, Sead and
AU - Becker, Natalie
AU - Luber, Petra
AU - Lohr, Dorothee
AU - Harms, Carolin
AU - and Plenge-Boenig, Anita
AU - Mellou, Kassiani
AU - Mandilara, Georgia and
AU - Mossong, Joel
AU - Ragimbeau, Catherine
AU - Weicherding, Pierre
AU - Hau,
AU - Patrick
AU - Dedicova, Daniela
AU - Safarikova, Lucie
AU - Nair, Satheesh
AU - and Dallman, Timothy J.
AU - Larkin, Lesley
AU - McCormick, Jacquelyn and
AU - De Pinna, Elizabeth
AU - Severi, Ettore
AU - Kotila, Saara
AU - Niskanen,
AU - Taina
AU - Rizzi, Valentina
AU - Deserio, Domenico
AU - Flieger, Antje and
AU - Stark, Klaus
JO - Eurosurveillance
PY - 2019
VL - 24
TODO - 36
SP - 6-14
PB - EUR CENTRE DIS PREVENTION & CONTROL
SN - 1025-496X, 1560-7917
TODO - 10.2807/1560-7917ES.2019.24.36.1800543
TODO - null
TODO - In spring 2016, Greece reported an outbreak caused by a previously
undescribed Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serotype (antigenic
formula 11:z41:e,n,z15) via the Epidemic Intelligence Information System
for Food-and Waterborne Diseases and Zoonoses (EPIS-FWD), with
epidemiological evidence for sesame products as presumptive vehicle.
Subsequently, Germany, Czech Republic, Luxembourg and the United Kingdom
(UK) reported infections with this novel serotype via EPIS-FWD.
Concerned countries in collaboration with the European Centre for
Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and European Food Safety Authority
(EFSA) adopted a common outbreak case definition. An outbreak case was
defined as a laboratory-confirmed notification of the novel Salmonella
serotype. Between March 2016 and April 2017, 47 outbreak cases were
notified (Greece: n = 22; Germany: n = 13; Czech Republic: n = 5;
Luxembourg: n = 4; UK: n = 3). Whole genome sequencing revealed the very
close genetic relatedness of isolates from all affected countries.
Interviews focusing on sesame product consumption, suspicious food item
testing and trace-back analysis following Salmonella spp. detection in
food products identified a company in Greece where sesame seeds from
different countries were processed. Through European collaboration, it
was possible to identify and recall sesame spread as one contaminated
food item serving as vehicle of infection and trace it back to its
origin.
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