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Euro Surveill. Usefulness of the European Epidemic Intelligence Information System in the management of an outbreak of listeriosis, Belgium, 2011

Giuseppe

Emeritus
[Source: Eurosurveillance, full text: (LINK). Abstract, edited.]

Eurosurveillance, Volume 17, Issue 38, 20 September 2012

Surveillance and outbreak reports

Usefulness of the European Epidemic Intelligence Information System in the management of an outbreak of listeriosis, Belgium, 2011


M Yde<SUP>1</SUP>, M Naranjo<SUP>1</SUP>, W Mattheus<SUP>1</SUP>, P Stragier<SUP>1</SUP>, B Pochet<SUP>2</SUP>, K Beulens<SUP>2</SUP>, K De Schrijver<SUP>3</SUP>, D Van den Branden<SUP>3</SUP>, V Laisnez<SUP>3</SUP>, W Flipse<SUP>3</SUP>, A Leclercq<SUP>4</SUP>, M Lecuit<SUP>4</SUP>, K Dierick<SUP>1</SUP>, S Bertrand ()<SUP>1</SUP>
  1. Communicable and Infectious Diseases, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium
  2. Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain, Belgium
  3. Infectious Disease Control Unit, Department of Public Health Surveillance, Flemish Agency for Care and Health, Antwerp, Belgium
  4. French National Reference Centre and WHOCC for Listeria, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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Citation style for this article: Yde M, Naranjo M, Mattheus W, Stragier P, Pochet B, Beulens K, De Schrijver K, Van den Branden D, Laisnez V, Flipse W, Leclercq A, Lecuit M, Dierick K, Bertrand S. Usefulness of the European Epidemic Intelligence Information System in the management of an outbreak of listeriosis, Belgium, 2011. Euro Surveill. 2012;17(38):pii=20279. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20279
Date of submission: 21 March 2012
<HR>A cluster of time-linked cases and the identification of a clonal strain suggest the occurrence of an outbreak of listeriosis in Belgium in 2011, presumably due to the consumption of hard cheese made with pasteurised milk and produced by a Belgium manufacturer. The outbreak clone was identified as Listeria monocytogenes serovar 1/2a, sensitive to arsenic and cadmium and of multilocus sequence typing MLST-type 37. Food investigation of this outbreak was facilitated by the European Epidemic Intelligence Information System and data exchanged between French and Belgium listeriosis surveillance systems.
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