Journal
EPIDEMIOLOGY AND INFECTION
Volume 139, Issue 8, Pages 1246-1253Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268810002293
Keywords
Foodborne zoonoses; microbial risk assessment; Salmonella; source attribution
Funding
- Med-Vet-Net, a European Network of Excellence for Zoonoses research
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The aim of this study was to identify the sources of sporadic domestic Salmonella cases in Sweden and to evaluate the usefulness of a source-attribution model in a country in which food animals are virtually free from Salmonella. The model allocates human sporadic domestic Salmonella cases to different sources according to distribution of Salmonella subtypes in the different sources. Sporadic domestic human Salmonella cases (n = 1086) reported between July 2004 and June 2006 were attributed to nine food-animal and wildlife sources. Of all Salmonella cases, 82% were acquired abroad and 2.9% were associated with outbreaks. We estimated that 6.4% were associated with imported food, 0.5% with food-producing animals, and 0.6% with wildlife. Overall, 7.7% could not be attributed to any source. We concluded that domestic food-producing animals are not an important source for Salmonella in humans in Sweden, and that the adapted model is useful also in low-prevalence countries.
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