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JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 181, Issue 5, Pages 1838-1841Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1086/315453
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In February 1999, an outbreak of listeriosis caused by Listeria monocytogenes serotype 3a occurred in Finland, All isolates were identical, The outbreak strain was first isolated in 1997 in dairy butter. This dairy began delivery to a tertiary care hospital (TCH) in June 1998, From June 1998 to April 1999, 25 case patients were identified (20 with sepsis, 4 with meningitis, and 1 with abscess; 6 patients died). Patients with the outbreak strain were more likely to have been admitted to the TCH than were patients with other strains of L. monocytogenes (60% vs. 8%; odds ratio, 17.3; 95% confidence interval, 2.8-136.8), Case patients admitted to the TCH had been hospitalized longer before cultures tested positive than had matched controls (median, 31 vs. 10 days; P = .008), An investigation found the outbreak strain in packaged butter served at the TCH and at the source dairy, Recall of the product ended the outbreak.
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