In August 2017, an outbreak of six listeriosis cases in Denmark was traced to cold-smoked salmon, using epidemiological investigations and whole-genome sequencing (WGS) analyses. Exchange of genome sequences allowed identification in France of a food isolate from a salmon-derived product and a human isolate from 2016 within the same cgMLST cluster as the Danish isolates (L2-SL8-ST8-CT771). The salmon product came from a third European Union country. WGS can rapidly link human cases and food isolates across Europe.
Auteur : Schjorring S, Gillesberg Lassen S, Jensen T, Moura A, Kjeldgaard JS, Muller L, Thielke S, Leclercq A, Maury MM, Tourdjman M, Donguy MP, Lecuit M, Ethelberg S, Nielsen EM
Eurosurveillance, 2017, vol. 22, n°. 50, p. pii=17-00762
