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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Eurosurveillance, 13(24), 2019
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.es.2019.24.13.1900161
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Outbreak of Salmonella enterica serotype Poona in infants linked to persistent Salmonella contamination in an infant formula manufacturing facility, France, August 2018 to February 2019
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De La Gandara,
María Pardos de La Gándara,
Laura Herrera-Leon,
Silvia Herrera-Leon,
Carmen Varela Martinez,
Carmen Varela Martinez,
Roselyne Hureaux-Roy,
Yasmine Abdallah,
Athinna Nisavanh,
Laetitia Fabre,
Charlotte Renaudat,
Joël Mossong,
Wesley Mattheus
and other authors.
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Abstract
We describe a Salmonella Poona outbreak involving 31 infant cases in France. Following outbreak detection on 18 January 2019, consumption of rice-based infant formula manufactured at a facility in Spain was identified as the probable cause, leading to a recall on 24 January. Whole genome sequencing analysis linked present outbreak isolates to a 2010–11 S. Poona outbreak in Spain associated with formula manufactured in the same facility, indicating a persistent source of contamination.