Giuseppe
Emeritus
[Source: Eurosurveillance, full text: (LINK). Abstract, edited.]
Eurosurveillance, Volume 16, Issue 19, 12 May 2011
Surveillance and outbreak reports
An outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium traced back to salami, Denmark, April to June 2010
K G Kuhn (
)<SUP>1</SUP>, M Torpdahl<SUP>2</SUP>, C Frank<SUP>3</SUP>, K Sigsgaard<SUP>4</SUP>, S Ethelberg<SUP>1</SUP><SUP>,2</SUP>
Citation style for this article: Kuhn KG, Torpdahl M, Frank C, Sigsgaard K, Ethelberg S. An outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium traced back to salami, Denmark, April to June 2010. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(19)
ii=19863. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19863
Date of submission: 16 December 2010 <HR>Between April and June 2010, a small national outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium with a particular multilocus variable-number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) type was identified in Denmark through laboratory-based surveillance. The outbreak involved twenty cases, primarily living within the greater Copenhagen area. Half of the cases were children aged ten years or younger and 12 were male; three cases were hospitalised. A matched case-control study showed a strong link between illness and eating a particular salami product containing pork and venison, matched odds ratio (mOR):150, confidence interval (CI): 19?1,600. The salami had been produced in Germany. Microbiological confirmation in food samples was sought but not obtained. Danish consumers were notified that they should return or dispose of any packages from the suspected salami batch. Because the salami product had potentially been sold in other European countries, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control urgent enquiry and Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed systems were used to highlight the possibility of outbreaks in these countries. Case-control studies are a strong tool in some outbreak investigations and evidence from such studies may give sufficient information to recall a food product.
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 16, Issue 19, 12 May 2011
Surveillance and outbreak reports
An outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium traced back to salami, Denmark, April to June 2010
K G Kuhn (
- Department of Epidemiology, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Microbiology Surveillance and Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Robert Koch Institut, Berlin, Germany
- Danish Veterinary and Food Administration, Copenhagen, Denmark
Citation style for this article: Kuhn KG, Torpdahl M, Frank C, Sigsgaard K, Ethelberg S. An outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium traced back to salami, Denmark, April to June 2010. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(19)
ii=19863. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19863 Date of submission: 16 December 2010 <HR>Between April and June 2010, a small national outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium with a particular multilocus variable-number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) type was identified in Denmark through laboratory-based surveillance. The outbreak involved twenty cases, primarily living within the greater Copenhagen area. Half of the cases were children aged ten years or younger and 12 were male; three cases were hospitalised. A matched case-control study showed a strong link between illness and eating a particular salami product containing pork and venison, matched odds ratio (mOR):150, confidence interval (CI): 19?1,600. The salami had been produced in Germany. Microbiological confirmation in food samples was sought but not obtained. Danish consumers were notified that they should return or dispose of any packages from the suspected salami batch. Because the salami product had potentially been sold in other European countries, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control urgent enquiry and Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed systems were used to highlight the possibility of outbreaks in these countries. Case-control studies are a strong tool in some outbreak investigations and evidence from such studies may give sufficient information to recall a food product.