Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis phage type 4b outbreak associated with bean sprouts

Yvonne T H P van Duynhoven; Marc-Alain Widdowson; Carolien M de Jager; Teresa Fernandes; Sabine Neppelenbroek; Winette van den Brandhof; Wim J B Wannet; Jan A van Kooij; Henk J M Rietveld; Wilfrid van Pelt

doi:10.3201/eid0804.010213

Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis phage type 4b outbreak associated with bean sprouts

Yvonne T H P van Duynhoven, Marc-Alain Widdowson, Carolien M de Jager, Teresa Fernandes, Sabine Neppelenbroek, Winette van den Brandhof, Wim J B Wannet, Jan A van Kooij, Henk J M Rietveld, Wilfrid van Pelt

Institute of Tropical Medicine

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Abstract

In November 2000 in the Netherlands, an outbreak of Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis phage type 4b was investigated. Eating bean sprouts was the only exposure associated with S. Enteritidis pt 4b infection (matched odds ratio 13.0, 95% confidence interval 2.0-552.5). Contaminated seeds were the most likely cause of contamination of the sprouts. The sprout grower applied a concentration of hypochlorite solution that was too low for seed disinfection.

Original language	English
Journal	Emerging Infectious Diseases
Volume	8
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	440-443
Number of pages	4
ISSN	1080-6040
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0804.010213
Publication status	Published - 2002

Keywords

Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Child
Child, Preschool
Disease Outbreaks
Fabaceae/microbiology
Female
Food Microbiology
Humans
Infant
Male
Middle Aged
Netherlands/epidemiology
Odds Ratio
Plant Shoots/microbiology
Salmonella Infections/epidemiology
Salmonella enterica/isolation & purification

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van Duynhoven, Y. T. H. P., Widdowson, M.-A., de Jager, C. M., Fernandes, T., Neppelenbroek, S., van den Brandhof, W., Wannet, W. J. B., van Kooij, J. A., Rietveld, H. J. M., & van Pelt, W. (2002). Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis phage type 4b outbreak associated with bean sprouts. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 8(4), 440-443. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0804.010213

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Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis phage type 4b outbreak associated with bean sprouts

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