Salmonella Vitkin Outbreak Associated with Bearded Dragons, Canada and United States, 2021–2022
| Autor: | Katherine Paphitis, Caroline A. Habrun, G. Sean Stapleton, Alexandra Reid, Christina Lee, Anna Majury, Allana Murphy, Heather McClinchey, Antoine Corbeil, Ashley Kearney, Katharine Benedict, Beth Tolar, Russell O. Forrest |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Zdroj: | Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 30, Iss 2, Pp 225-233 (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1080-6040 1080-6059 |
| DOI: | 10.3201/eid3002.230963 |
| Popis: | We identified 2 cases of Salmonella enterica serovar Vitkin infection linked by whole-genome sequencing in infants in Ontario, Canada, during 2022. Both households of the infants reported having bearded dragons as pets. The outbreak strain was also isolated from an environmental sample collected from a patient’s bearded dragon enclosure. Twelve cases were detected in the United States, and onset dates occurred during March 2021–September 2022 (isolates related to isolates from Canada within 0–9 allele differences by core-genome multilocus sequence typing). Most US patients (66.7%) were |
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