An investigation of an outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium infections linked to cantaloupe - United States, 2022.

Autor: Federman SS; Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, MD, USA., Jenkins E; Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, MD, USA., Wilson C; Office of Regulatory Affairs, Food and Drug Administration, Portland, ME, USA., DeLaGarza A; Office of Regulatory Affairs, Food and Drug Administration, Brownsville, TX, USA., Schwensohn C; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA., Schneider B; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA., Nsubuga J; Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, MD, USA., Literman R; Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, MD, USA., Wellman A; Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, MD, USA., Whitney BM; Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, MD, USA., Bell RL; Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, MD, USA., Harris-Garner K; Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, MD, USA., McKenna C; Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, MD, USA., Brillhart D; Office of Regulatory Affairs, Food and Drug Administration, Atlanta, GA, USA., Cross M; Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals, and Licensing, Des Moines, IA, USA., Rueber K; Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals, and Licensing, Des Moines, IA, USA., Schlichte T; Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals, and Licensing, Des Moines, IA, USA., Oni K; Iowa Department of Health and Human Services, Des Moines, IA, USA., Adams J; Association of Public Health Laboratories, Silver Spring, MD, USA., Crosby AJ; Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, MD, USA., Bazaco MC; Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, MD, USA., Gieraltowski L; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA., Nolte K; Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, MD, USA., Viazis S; Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, MD, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Food control [Food Control] 2024 Dec; Vol. 166. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jul 15.
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2024.110733
Abstrakt: In 2022, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state health and regulatory partners investigated an outbreak of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium infections linked to cantaloupes from southwest Indiana, resulting in 87 ill persons and 32 hospitalizations reported in 11 states. Epidemiologic and traceback evidence confirmed cantaloupe as the vehicle for these infections. Based on records collected by FDA, traceback of cantaloupe exposures for 14 ill people converged on a packing house in southwest Indiana, which supplied cantaloupe to eight of the 11 points of service where ill people purchased cantaloupe. Salmonella isolates were recovered from environmental samples collected by FDA from three growers and a packing house in southwest Indiana. Whole genome sequencing analyses of these isolates found that isolates collected from one grower matched the Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak strain, and samples collected from the other two growers and the packing house matched a 2020 Salmonella Newport outbreak strain. State and federal public health and agricultural partners identified potential conditions and practices that could have possibly resulted in the contamination of cantaloupe, including the presence of Salmonella spp. in on-farm, post-harvest, and off-farm environments. This is the third outbreak of salmonellosis confirmed to be linked to melons, sourced from southwest Indiana in the last decade. The 2012, 2020, and 2022 outbreaks of reoccurring and persisting strains of Salmonella illustrate the need for additional efforts to determine the source and extent of environmental contamination in the melon growing region of southwest Indiana and for outreach and education to help promote practices to reduce contamination of melons.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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