Tuesday, 23 March 2021

PRO/AH/EDR> Yersiniosis - Sweden: imported iceberg lettuce, restaurant chain

Foodborne Illness -- Sweden
An outbreak of _Yersinia_ in Sweden has ended with iceberg lettuce as the suspected source of infection. From January until the beginning of February 2021, twice as many people fell ill with _Yersinia_ infection as did during the same period in a normal year.
From 53 cases of _Y. enterocolitica_, 33 lived in Stockholm, Vastra Gotaland, and Halland. Isolates from 24 of these cases were typed by whole genome sequencing and 16 outbreak patients with clustered isolates of sequence type 18 could

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?8263943&promed&0

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