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National Enteric Disease Surveillance : the Listeria Initiative

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  • Corporate Authors:
    National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases. Enteric Diseases Epidemiology Branch.
  • Description:
    Listeria monocytogenes is estimated to cause nearly 1,600 illnesses each year in the United States, with more than 1,400 hospitalizations and 250 deaths (1). Although human Listeria infections are nationally notifiable, some cases may not be recognized through public health surveillance, in part because some Listeria isolates may not be forwarded or reported from clinical laboratories to state public health laboratories. Additionally, although invasive listeriosis is a serious disease for which patients would be expected to seek medical care, it is likely that some cases of infection, especially those that involve miscarriages and stillbirths, may not be diagnosed (1).

    The Listeria Initiative is an enhanced surveillance system that collects reports of laboratory-confirmed cases of human listeriosis in the United States. Demographic (e.g., age, sex, race/ethnicity), clinical (e.g., symptoms, type of illness, patient outcomes), laboratory (e.g., date of collection and source of the specimen that yielded the Listeria isolate), and epidemiologic (e.g., food consumption history) data are collected using a standardized, extended questionnaire. The Listeria Initiative was piloted in the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet) in 2004 and implemented nationwide in 2005. Both the number of states participating in and the number of reports sent to the Listeria Initiative continue to increase.

    ListeriaInitiativeOverview_508.pdf

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  • Series:
    Enteric Disease Surveillance
  • Document Type:
    Pamphlet (or booklet)
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    Fact Sheet
  • Place as Subject:
    United States
  • Pages in Document:
    2 numbered pages
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    urn:sha-512:20e1715f337674b6ae1904d33d4e281816a284a9172de19086429947875a4519fd325464f16a2accf59825caace4a89bd45fff9490513461fa12a1ad883d4415
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