Multinational outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis infection during an international youth ice hockey competition in Riga, Latvia, preliminary report, March and April 2015

A K Pesola; T Pärn; S Huusko; J Perevoščikovs; J Ollgren; S Salmenlinna; T Lienemann; C Gossner; N Danielsson; R Rimhanen-Finne

doi:10.2807/1560-7917.ES2015.20.20.21133

Rapid communications Open Access

Like 0

Download

Multinational outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis infection during an international youth ice hockey competition in Riga, Latvia, preliminary report, March and April 2015
A K Pesola¹ , T Pärn^1,2 , S Huusko¹ , J Perevoščikovs³ , J Ollgren¹ , S Salmenlinna¹ , T Lienemann¹ , C Gossner⁴ , N Danielsson⁴ , R Rimhanen-Finne¹
View Affiliations Hide Affiliations

Affiliations: ¹ National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Department of Infectious Diseases Surveillance and Control, Helsinki, Finland ² European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden ³ Centre for Disease Prevention and Control of Latvia ⁴ European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden

Correspondence:
A Pesola
katrinepesola gmail.com
View Citation Hide Citation

Citation style for this article: Pesola A K, Pärn T, Huusko S, Perevoščikovs J, Ollgren J, Salmenlinna S, Lienemann T, Gossner C, Danielsson N, Rimhanen-Finne R. Multinational outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis infection during an international youth ice hockey competition in Riga, Latvia, preliminary report, March and April 2015. Euro Surveill. 2015;20(20):pii=21133. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES2015.20.20.21133 Received: 12 May 2015

Previous Article
Table of Contents
Next Article

Abstract

A multinational outbreak of salmonellosis linked to the Riga Cup 2015 junior ice-hockey competition was detected by the Finnish health authorities in mid-April and immediately notified at the European Union level. This prompted an international outbreak investigation supported by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. As of 8 May 2015, seven countries have reported 214 confirmed and suspected cases, among which 122 from Finland. The search for the source of the outbreak is ongoing.