Nationwide outbreak of Salmonella enterica serotype 4,12:i:- infections in France, linked to dried pork sausage, March-May 2010

A Bone; H Noel; S Le Hello; N Pihier; C Danan; M E Raguenaud; S Salah; H Bellali; V Vaillant; F X Weill; N Jourdan-da Silva

doi:10.2807/ese.15.24.19592-en

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Nationwide outbreak of Salmonella enterica serotype 4,12:i:- infections in France, linked to dried pork sausage, March-May 2010
A Bone^1,2 , H Noel¹ , S Le Hello³ , N Pihier⁴ , C Danan⁵ , M E Raguenaud⁶ , S Salah⁴ , H Bellali^1,7 , V Vaillant¹ , F X Weill³ , N Jourdan-da Silva¹
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Affiliations: ¹ Institut de veille sanitaire, St Maurice, France ² EPIET, European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology, ECDC, Stockholm, Sweden ³ Institut Pasteur, Centre National de Référence des Salmonella, Paris, France ⁴ Direction générale de l’alimentation, Mission des urgences sanitaires, Paris, France ⁵ Agence française de sécurité sanitaire des aliments, Maisons Alfort, France ⁶ Cellule de l’InVS en régions Limousin et Poitou-Charentes, France ⁷ Profet - Programme de formation à l’épidémiologie de terrain

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Citation style for this article: Bone A, Noel H, Le Hello S, Pihier N, Danan C, Raguenaud M E, Salah S, Bellali H, Vaillant V, Weill F X, Jourdan-da Silva N. Nationwide outbreak of Salmonella enterica serotype 4,12:i:- infections in France, linked to dried pork sausage, March-May 2010. Euro Surveill. 2010;15(24):pii=19592. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.15.24.19592-en Received: 14 Jun 2010

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Abstract

In May 2010, a nationwide excess of infections with the specific monophasic variant Salmonella enterica serotype 4,12:i:- was investigated in France. Subtyping with multilocus variable number of tandem repeats analysis revealed a distinct epidemic strain within this excess. Epidemiological investigations identified a dried pork sausage sold by a particular chain of supermarkets as the likely vehicle of transmission. The suspected batches have been withdrawn and recalled.