Outbreak of haemolytic uraemic syndrome and bloody diarrhoea due to Escherichia coli O104:H4, south-west France, June 2011

G Gault; F X Weill; P Mariani-Kurkdjian; N Jourdan-da Silva; L King; B Aldabe; M Charron; N Ong; C Castor; M Macé; E Bingen; H Noël; V Vaillant; A Bone; B Vendrely; Y Delmas; C Combe; R Bercion; E d'Andigné; M Desjardin; P Rolland; H de Valk

doi:10.2807/ese.16.26.19905-en

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Outbreak of haemolytic uraemic syndrome and bloody diarrhoea due to Escherichia coli O104:H4, south-west France, June 2011
G Gault¹ , F X Weill² , P Mariani-Kurkdjian ³ , N Jourdan-da Silva⁴ , L King⁴ , B Aldabe¹ , M Charron¹ , N Ong¹ , C Castor¹ , M Macé² , E Bingen³ , H Noël⁴ , V Vaillant⁴ , A Bone^4,5 , B Vendrely⁶ , Y Delmas⁶ , C Combe⁶ , R Bercion⁷ , E d'Andigné⁷ , M Desjardin⁷ , P Rolland¹ , H de Valk⁴
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Affiliations: ¹ Cellule interrégionale d’épidémiologie (CIRE) Aquitaine, France ² Institut Pasteur, Centre National de Référence des Escherichia coli et Shigella, Paris, France ³ Laboratoire associé au CNR des Escherichia coli et Shigella, Service de Microbiologie, Hôpital Robert Debré, Paris, France ⁴ French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (Institut de Veille Sanitaire, InVS), St Maurice, France ⁵ European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology (EPIET), European Centre of Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden ⁶ Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France ⁷ Hôpital des Instruction des Armées Robert Piqué, Villenave-D'ornon, France

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Citation style for this article: Gault G , Weill F X, Mariani-Kurkdjian P, Jourdan-da Silva N, King L, Aldabe B, Charron M, Ong N, Castor C, Macé M, Bingen E, Noël H, Vaillant V, Bone A, Vendrely B , Delmas Y, Combe C, Bercion R, d'Andigné E, Desjardin M, Rolland P, de Valk H. Outbreak of haemolytic uraemic syndrome and bloody diarrhoea due to Escherichia coli O104:H4, south-west France, June 2011. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(26):pii=19905. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.16.26.19905-en Received: 29 Jun 2011

Abstract

As of 12:00 28 June 2011, 15 cases of haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) or bloody diarrhoea have been identified in the Gironde, south-west France. Investigations suggest the vehicle of transmission was sprouts, served at an event in Bègles on 8 June 2011. A strain of shiga toxin- producing Escherichia coli O104:H4 has been isolated from five cases. This strain is genetically related to the strain identified in the recent E. coli O104:H4 outbreak in Germany, and shares the same virulence and antimicrobial resistance characteristics. .