Experts have shared findings from Cryptosporidium, Listeria, Trichinella, and Salmonella outbreaks at an event in Europe.
Among presentations at the European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology (ESCAIDE) was one about the Danish perspective on two multi-country outbreaks. These included a Salmonella outbreak linked to chicken meat from Poland
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A European court has ruled on a case involving how national authorities handle detection of Salmonella types in chicken meat that are not listed in EU regulation.
The request for a ruling was made in a case between Romega UAB, a poultry meat wholesaler, and the State Food and Veterinary
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Swedish public health officials are investigating an outbreak of Salmonella that is believed to be foodborne.
Since October 2017, there have been 63 cases of Salmonella Kentucky infections
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Strains of one increasingly antibiotic-resistant Salmonella serotype have seen a “rapid worldwide spread,” according to a study published by researchers at the Institut Pasteur in Paris and Morocco. Antibiotic-resistant Salmonella Kentucky, first isolated in 2002 in a French tourist who had visited Egypt, has now “spread at an astonishing rate
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Antibiotic resistance among species of Salmonella remains an extremely rare phenomenon in Canadian health, but it’s a “growing concern” worth monitoring, according to a new study led by researchers at the Public Health Agency of Canada published in the June 2013 edition of Emerging Infectious Diseases. The resistant strains
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In a study published online Wednesday in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, an international team of researchers led by France’s Pasteur Institute describes the emergence of a multidrug-resistant strain of Salmonella, this one a variant of S. Kentucky.
The new strain is highly resistant to several antimicrobials, notably ciprofloxacin
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