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1. Multistate Shigellosis Outbreak and Commercially Prepared Food

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Akiko C. Kimura, Kammy Johnson, Mary S. Palumbo, Jacqueline Hopkins, Janice C. Boase, Roshan Reporter, Marcia Goldoft, Karen R. Stefonek, Jeff A. Farrar, Thomas J. Van Gilder, and Duc J. Vugia

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Disease outbreaks, Shigella infections, food contamination, food handling, Medicine, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216
Abstract

In 2000, shigellosis traced to a commercially prepared dip developed in 406 persons nationwide. An ill employee is suspected to have inadvertently contaminated processing equipment. This outbreak demonstrates the vulnerability of the food supply and how infectious organisms can rapidly disseminate through point-source contamination of a widely distributed food item.

Published
2004
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2. Multistate Shigellosis Outbreak and Commercially Prepared Food, United States

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Roshan Reporter, Janice C. Boase, Marcia Goldoft, Jacqueline Hopkins, Thomas Van Gilder, Karen Stefonek, Jeff A. Farrar, Akiko C. Kimura, Mary S. Palumbo, Kammy R. Johnson, and Duc J. Vugia

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Microbiology (medical), Adult, DNA, Bacterial, Male, Shigellosis, Adolescent, Epidemiology, Food item, Shigella sonnei, Shigella infections, Disease Outbreaks, Foodborne Diseases, Environmental health, Food supply, Medicine, Food microbiology, Humans, Food science, Food-Processing Industry, Child, Aged, Dysentery, Bacillary, business.industry, Dispatch, Outbreak, Infant, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, United States, Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field, Gastroenteritis, Infectious Diseases, food contamination, Child, Preschool, Food processing, Food Microbiology, Female, business, food handling
Abstract

In 2000, shigellosis traced to a commercially prepared dip developed in 406 persons nationwide. An ill employee may have inadvertently contaminated processing equipment. This outbreak demonstrates the vulnerability of the food supply and how infectious organisms can rapidly disseminate through point-source contamination of a widely distributed food item.

Published
2004

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