Reported foodborne outbreaks due to noroviruses in Belgium: the link between food and patient investigations in an international context
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- Authors:
- BAERT, L
UYTTENDAELE, M
STALS, A
VAN COILLIE, E
DIERICK, K
DEBEVERE, J
BOTTELDOORN, N - Author Affiliations:
- Ghent University, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Department of Food Safety and Food Quality, Laboratory of Food Microbiology and Food Preservation, Ghent, Belgium
Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research, Technology and Food Unit, Melle, Belgium
Scientific Institute of Public Health, Department of Microbiology, Division of Bacteriology, Brussels, Belgium - Source:
- Food Poisoning from Raw Fruit and VegetablesEpidemiology and infection. 137(3):316-325
- Publication Date:
- 2009-01-01
- Language:
- English
- Abstract:
- The Belgian data for foodborne norovirus (NoV) outbreaks became available for the first time with the introduction of an extraction and detection protocol for NoV in the National Reference Laboratory for foodborne outbreaks in September 2006. In 2007, 10 NoV foodborne outbreaks were reported affecting 392 persons in Belgium. NoV became the most detected agent in foodborne outbreaks followed by Salmonella (eight foodborne outbreaks). The major implicated foods were sandwiches (4/10), where food handlers reported a history of gastroenteritis in two outbreaks. A food handler was implicated in the limited number of Belgian NoV outbreaks which is in accord with internationally recorded data. Forty foodborne and waterborne outbreak events due to NoV, epidemiological and/or laboratory confirmed, from 2000 to 2007 revealed that in 42.5 % of the cases the food handler was responsible for the outbreak, followed by water (27·5%), bivalve shellfish (17·5%) and raspberries (10·0%).
- Notes:
- Microbiology
- Subjects:
- Hygiene and public health, epidemiology, occupational medicine
Hygiène et santé publique, épidémiologie, médecine du travail
Microbiology, infectious diseases
Microbiologie, maladies infectieuses
Sciences biologiques et medicales
Biological and medical sciences
Sciences biologiques fondamentales et appliquees. Psychologie
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Microbiologie
Microbiology
Pathologie de l'appareil digestif
Digestive diseases
Aparato digestivo patología
Aliment
Food
Alimento
Epidémiologie
Epidemiology
Epidemiología
Homme
Human
Hombre
Intoxication alimentaire
Food poisoning
Intoxicación alimentaria
Microbiologie
Microbiology
Microbiología - Geography:
- Europe
Europa
Belgique
Belgium
Belgica - Format:
- Academic Journal
- Database:
- PASCAL Archive
- Journal:
- Food Poisoning from Raw Fruit and Vegetables
- Volume:
- 137
- Issue:
- 3
- Page Start:
- 316
- Page Count:
- 10
- ISSN:
- 09502688
- Publisher:
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Document Type:
- Article
- Physical Description:
- print, 56 ref
