Open AccessA Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak linked to Vietnamese bread rolls in South Western Sydney, Australia, 2015
Author(s) -
Meena Chandra,
Heidi Lord,
Stephanie Fletcher-Lartey,
Kate Alexander,
Nilva Egana,
Stephen Conaty
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
western pacific surveillance response journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 2094-7313
pISSN - 2094-7321
DOI - 10.5365/wpsar.2016.7.2.007
Subject(s) - multiple loci vntr analysis , outbreak , salmonella , variable number tandem repeat , salmonella enteritidis , veterinary medicine , cluster (spacecraft) , biology , geography , medicine , virology , genotype , genetics , bacteria , gene , computer science , programming language
In September 2015, the South Western Sydney (SWS) Public Health Unit was notified of a cluster of Salmonella Typhimurium (STm) cases with a common multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeats analysis (MLVA) pattern. An investigation was conducted to identify a source and contain the outbreak.