A multi-country outbreak of Salmonella newport gastroenteritis in Europe associated with watermelon from Brazil, confirmed by whole genome sequencing: October 2011 to January 2012

Eurosurveillance

Volumn , Issue 31, 2014, Pages

  Byrne, L ^a   Fisher, I ^a   Peters, T ^a   Mather, A ^b   Thomson, N ^b   Rosner, B ^c   Bernard, H ^c   McKeown, P ^d   Cormican, M ^e   Cowden, J ^f   Aiyedun, V ^a   Lane, C ^a   Aish, Joanne ^g   Adak, Goutam ^g   Aiyedun, Victor ^g   Brown, Derek ^g   Browning, Lynda ^g   Cook, Paul ^g   Ellis, Cecilia ^g   Fox, Andrew ^g   De Pinna, Elizabeth ^g   Garvey, Patricia ^g   Grant, Kathie ^g   Guina Dornan, Dorothy ^g   Hiller, Petra ^g   Houston, Colin ^g   Launders, Naomi ^g   Malorny, Burkhard ^g   O’Brien, Brendan ^g   Pfefferkorn, Beatrice ^g   Prager, Rita ^g   Rabsch, Wolfgang ^g   Salmon, Roland ^g   Smith, Robert ^g   Smyth, Brian ^g   Stone, Kirsten ^g   Wichmann Schauer, Heidi ^g   more..

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d HEALTH PROTECTION SURVEILLANCE CENTRE   (Ireland)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GALWAY   (Ireland)

^f HEALTH PROTECTION SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^g NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; GENOMIC DNA;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHILD; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; FEMALE; FEVER; FOOD POISONING; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALMONELLA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VOMITING; WATERMELON; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; AGED; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; FOLLOW UP; FOOD BORNE ILLNESS QUESTIONNAIRE; FOOD INTAKE; GENE SEQUENCE; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; OUTBREAK CASE EXPOSURE QUESTIONNAIRE; VERY ELDERLY;

EID: 84906791480     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.es2014.19.31.20866     Document Type: Article

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