Prolonged hospital and community-based listeriosis outbreak caused by ready-to-eat scalded sausages

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 121-128

  Winter, C H ^a,b,c   Brockmann, S O ^a,b,c   Sonnentag, S R ^d   Schaupp, T ^d   Prager, R ^c   Hof, H ^e   Becker, B ^f   Stegmanns, T ^g   Roloff, H U ^g   Vollrath, G ^h   Kuhm, A E ⁱ   Mezger, B B ^a   Schmolz, G K ^a   Klittich, G B ^a   Pfaff, G ^a   Piechotowski, I ^a  

^a Baden Wurttemberg State Health Office   (Germany)

^b Postgraduate Training for Applied Epidemiology ^*  (Germany)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d Department of Paediatrics   (Germany)

^e MEDICAL FACULTY MANNHEIM HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION AND FOOD   (Germany)

^g Local Food Authorities Stuttgart   (Germany)

^h Local Food Authorities Rems Murr Kreis   (Germany)

ⁱ Food Control and Animal Health Laboratory Stuttgart (CVUA Stuttgart)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Foodborne outbreak; Hospital; Immunocompromised patients; Listeria monocytogenes; Meat products; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis; Ready to eat

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; PREDNISOLONE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE FINDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD QUALITY; FOOD SAFETY; GERMANY; HOSPITAL FOOD SERVICE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION CONTROL; KITCHEN; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MALE; MEAT; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; QUALITY CONTROL; SEROTYPE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD-PROCESSING INDUSTRY; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MALE; MEAT PRODUCTS; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; SEROTYPING;

EID: 69749112396     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2009.06.011     Document Type: Article

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