| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Authors: | M. Yde, Naranjo, M., Mattheus, W., Stragier, P., Pochet, B., Beulens, K., De Schrijver, K., Van den Branden, D., Laisnez, V., Flipse, W., Leclercq, A., Lecuit, M., Dierick, K., Bertrand, S. |
| Journal: | Euro Surveill |
| Volume: | 17 |
| Issue: | 38 |
| Date Published: | 2012 |
| ISSN: | 1560-7917 |
| Keywords: | Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Arsenites, Bacterial Typing Techniques, Belgium, Cadmium Chloride, Cluster Analysis, Disease Outbreaks, Drug Resistance, Microbial, Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field, Europe, Female, Foodborne Diseases, Geographic Information Systems, Hospitalization, Humans, Information Dissemination, Listeria monocytogenes, Listeriosis, Male, Microbial Sensitivity Tests, Middle Aged, Molecular Sequence Data, Population Surveillance |
| Abstract: | A cluster of time-linked cases and the identification of a clonal strain suggest the occurrence of an outbreak of listeriosis in Belgium in 2011, presumably due to the consumption of hard cheese made with pasteurised milk and produced by a Belgium manufacturer. The outbreak clone was identified as Listeria monocytogenes serovar 1/2a, sensitive to arsenic and cadmium and of multilocus sequence typing MLST-type 37. Food investigation of this outbreak was facilitated by the European Epidemic Intelligence Information System and data exchanged between French and Belgium listeriosis surveillance systems. |
| Alternate Journal: | Euro Surveill. |