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Outbreak of Salmonella enterica serotype Poona in infants linked to persistent Salmonella contamination in an infant formula manufacturing facility, France, August 2018 to February 2019
- Gabrielle Jones1 , Maria Pardos de la Gandara2 , Laura Herrera-Leon3 , Silvia Herrera-Leon3 , Carmen Varela Martinez4 , Roselyne Hureaux-Roy5 , Yasmine Abdallah5 , Athinna Nisavanh1 , Laetitia Fabre2 , Charlotte Renaudat2 , Joël Mossong6 , Wesley Mattheus7 , Cécile Huard8 , Caroline Le Borgne9 , Henriette de Valk1 , François-Xavier Weill2 , Nathalie Jourdan-Da Silva1
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations: 1 Santé publique France, Saint-Maurice, France 2 Centre National de Référence des Escherichia coli, Shigella et Salmonella, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France 3 National Centre for Microbiology, CIBER Epidemiologia y Salud Publica, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain 4 National Centre for Epidemiology, CIBER Epidemiologia y Salud Publica, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain 5 Directorate of the Ministry of Economy in charge of consumers’ affairs, Paris, France 6 Department of Microbiology, Laboratoire National de Santé, Dudelange, Luxembourg 7 National Reference Centre for Salmonella and Shigella, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium 8 Direction Santé et Aide aux Personnes, Commission Communautaire Commune, Brussels, Belgium 9 French Ministry of Health, Paris, FranceGabrielle Jonesgabrielle.jones santepubliquefrance.fr
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Citation style for this article: Jones Gabrielle, Pardos de la Gandara Maria, Herrera-Leon Laura, Herrera-Leon Silvia, Varela Martinez Carmen , Hureaux-Roy Roselyne, Abdallah Yasmine, Nisavanh Athinna, Fabre Laetitia, Renaudat Charlotte, Mossong Joël, Mattheus Wesley, Huard Cécile, Le Borgne Caroline, de Valk Henriette, Weill François-Xavier, Jourdan-Da Silva Nathalie . Outbreak of Salmonella enterica serotype Poona in infants linked to persistent Salmonella contamination in an infant formula manufacturing facility, France, August 2018 to February 2019. Euro Surveill. 2019;24(13):pii=1900161. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.13.1900161 Received: 04 Mar 2019; Accepted: 27 Mar 2019
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Abstract
We describe a Salmonella Poona outbreak involving 31 infant cases in France. Following outbreak detection on 18 January 2019, consumption of rice-based infant formula manufactured at a facility in Spain was identified as the probable cause, leading to a recall on 24 January. Whole genome sequencing analysis linked present outbreak isolates to a 2010–11 S. Poona outbreak in Spain associated with formula manufactured in the same facility, indicating a persistent source of contamination.
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