- Usefulness of the European Epidemic Intelligence Information System in the management of an outbreak of listeriosis, Belgium, 2011.
Usefulness of the European Epidemic Intelligence Information System in the management of an outbreak of listeriosis, Belgium, 2011.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin (2012-10-09)
M Yde, M Naranjo, W Mattheus, P Stragier, B Pochet, K Beulens, K De Schrijver, D Van den Branden, V Laisnez, W Flipse, A Leclercq, M Lecuit, K Dierick, S Bertrand
PMID23040965
RESUMEN
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.