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Alternative Title:
Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:
Verhoef, Linda P.B. ; Kroneman, Annelies ; van Duynhoven, Yvonne ; Boshuizen, Hendriek ; van Pelt, Wilfrid ; ... More +
Verhoef, Linda P.B. ; Kroneman, Annelies ; van Duynhoven, Yvonne ; Boshuizen, Hendriek ; van Pelt, Wilfrid ; Koopmans, Marion ; Less -
Corporate Authors:
on behalf of the Foodborne Viruses in Europe Network ;
Description:
Detection of pathogens in the food chain is limited mainly to bacteria, and the globalization of the food industry enables international viral foodborne outbreaks to occur. Outbreaks from 2002 through 2006 recorded in a European norovirus surveillance database were investigated for virologic and epidemiologic indicators of food relatedness. The resulting validated multivariate logistic regression model comparing foodborne (n = 224) and person-to-person (n = 654) outbreaks was used to create a practical web-based tool that can be limited to epidemiologic parameters for nongenotyping countries. Non-genogroup-II.4 outbreaks, higher numbers of cases, and outbreaks in restaurants or households characterized (sensitivity = 0.80, specificity = 0.86) foodborne outbreaks and reduced the percentage of outbreaks requiring source-tracing to 31%. The selection tool enabled prospectively focused follow-up. Use of this tool is likely to improve data quality and strain typing in current surveillance systems, which is necessary for identification of potential international foodborne outbreaks.
Subject:
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Caliciviridae Infections
Communicable Diseases
Databases, Factual
Disease Notification
Disease Outbreaks
Epidemiology
Europe
Foodborne
Food Contamination
Gastroenteritis
Humans
Internet
Models, Biological
Norovirus
Outbreaks
Population Surveillance
Predictive Value Of Tests
Prevention And Control
Research
Surveillance
Virology
Research

Source:
Emerg Infect Dis. 15(1):31-38. ;
Document Type:
Journal Article ;
Collection(s):
Emerging Infectious Diseases
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