Notes from the Field: Outbreak of Listeriosis Associated with Consumption of Packaged Salad - United States and Canada, 2015-2016

MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2016 Aug 26;65(33):879-81. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6533a6.

Abstract

In September 2015, PulseNet, the national molecular subtyping network for foodborne disease surveillance, identified a cluster of Listeria monocytogenes (Listeria) clinical isolates indistinguishable by two-enzyme pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) pattern combination and highly related by whole-genome multilocus sequence typing (wgMLST). A case was defined as isolation of Listeria with the outbreak PFGE pattern and highly related by wgMLST with an isolation date on or after July 5, 2015, the isolate date of the earliest case in this cluster.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Canada / epidemiology
  • Cluster Analysis
  • Disease Outbreaks*
  • Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Food Microbiology
  • Food Packaging
  • Foodborne Diseases / diagnosis
  • Foodborne Diseases / epidemiology*
  • Humans
  • Listeria monocytogenes / isolation & purification*
  • Listeriosis / diagnosis
  • Listeriosis / epidemiology*
  • Pregnancy
  • United States / epidemiology
  • Vegetables / microbiology*
  • Vegetables / poisoning