US: Drug-resistant Salmonella outbreak linked to ground beef - (CIDRAP News)
December 21, 2007 – 7:01 pmThe US Department of Agriculture (USDA) yesterday issued a public health alert about ground beef products that may be contaminated with a multidrug-resistant form of Salmonella that has sickened 38 people in four western states.
The alert, issued by the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), said the illnesses are associated with multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica serotype Newport in ground beef that may have been ground and sold at Safeway supermarkets in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, and New Mexico between Sept 19 and Nov 5.
Epidemiologic investigations and a case-control study by state health officials in Arizona and California and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found an association between fresh ground beef products and 38 illnesses that exhibited the same rare pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) pattern in the CDC’s PulseNet system. The cases include 16 from Arizona, 18 from California, 1 from Idaho, and 3 from Nevada.
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