Salmonella Outbreak
Restaurant patrons sickened by chef infected with drug-resistant S. typhimurium
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, November 30th, 2004
According to a study from Denmark, "This report concerns a prolonged restaurant-associated outbreak of infection caused by a multidrug-resistant (ASSuT) strain of Salmonella typhimurium, phage-type U302, which took place during July and August 2003 and affected people from Denmark and neighboring countries who had attended a specific restaurant."
"The outbreak comprised 67 laboratory-verified cases and ten probable cases; however," said S. Ethelberg and coauthors, "the actual number of patients was estimated to be more than 390. The...
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