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Outbreak of Listeriosis in South Africa Associated with Processed Meat
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BACKGROUNDAn outbreak of listeriosis was identified in South Africa in 2017.The source was unknown. METHODSWe conducted epidemiologic, trace-back, and environmental investigations and used whole-genome sequencing to type Listeria monocytogenes isolates.A case was defined as laboratory-confirmed L. monocytogenes infection during the period from June 11, 2017, to April 7, 2018. RESULTSA total of 937 cases were identified, of which 465 (50%) were associated with pregnancy; 406 of the pregnancy-associated cases (87%) occurred in neonates.Of the 937 cases, 229 (24%) occurred in patients 15 to 49 years of age (excluding those who were pregnant).Among the patients in whom human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) status was known, 38% of those with pregnancy-associated cases (77 of 204) and 46% of the remaining patients (97 of 211) were infected with HIV.Among 728 patients with a known outcome, 193 (27%) died.Clinical isolates from 609 patients were sequenced, and 567 (93%) were identified as sequence type 6 (ST6).In a case-control analysis, patients with ST6 infections were more likely to have eaten polony (a ready-to-eat processed meat) than those with non-ST6 infections (odds ratio, 8.55; 95% confidence interval, 1.66 to 43.35).Polony and environmental samples also yielded ST6 isolates, which, together with the isolates from the patients, belonged to the same core-genome multilocus sequence typing cluster with no more than 4 allelic differences; these findings showed that polony produced at a single facility was the outbreak source.A recall of ready-to-eat processed meat products from this facility was associated with a rapid decline in the incidence of L. monocytogenes ST6 infections. CONCLUSIONSThis investigation showed that in a middle-income country with a high prevalence of HIV infection, L. monocytogenes caused disproportionate illness among pregnant girls and women and HIV-infected persons.Whole-genome sequencing facilitated the detection of the outbreak and guided the trace-back investigations that led to the identification of the source.
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- Thomas, J., Govender, N., McCarthy, K. M., Erasmus, L. K., Doyle, T. J., Allam, M., Ismail, A., Ramalwa, N., Sekwadi, P., Ntshoe, G., Shonhiwa, A., Essel, V., Tau, N., Smouse, S., Ngomane, H. M., Disenyeng, B., Page, N. A., Govender, N. P., Duse, A. G., Stewart, R., Thomas, T., Mahoney, D., Tourdjman, M., Disson, O., Thouvenot, P., Maury, M. M., Leclercq, A., Lecuit, M., Smith, A. M., & Blumberg, L. H.
- Venue
- New England Journal of Medicine
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- Massachusetts Medical Society
- Published
- 2020-02-13
- Volume
- 382
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 632-643
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- 0028-4793 (ISSN-L)
- 1533-4406
- OpenAlex
- W3006509899
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- 253
- References
- 28
- FWCI
- 18.01
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- Language
- en
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