Outbreak of invasive pneumococcal disease among shipyard workers, Turku, Finland, May to November 2019

We report an outbreak of invasive pneumococcal disease and pneumococcal pneumonia among shipyard workers, in Turku, Southwest Finland. In total, 31 confirmed and six probable cases were identified between 3 May and 28 November 2019. Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes 12F, 4 and 8 were isolated from...

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Autores principales: Linkevicius, Marius, Cristea, Veronica, Siira, Lotta, Mäkelä, Henna, Toropainen, Maija, Pitkäpaasi, Marjaana, Dub, Timothee, Nohynek, Hanna, Puumalainen, Taneli, Rintala, Esa, Laaksonen, Merja E., Feuth, Thijs, Grönroos, Juha O., Peltoniemi, Jutta, Frilander, Heikki, Lindström, Irmeli, Sane, Jussi
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Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2019
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Rapid Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6905297/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31822326
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.49.1900681
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author Linkevicius, Marius
Cristea, Veronica
Siira, Lotta
Mäkelä, Henna
Toropainen, Maija
Pitkäpaasi, Marjaana
Dub, Timothee
Nohynek, Hanna
Puumalainen, Taneli
Rintala, Esa
Laaksonen, Merja E.
Feuth, Thijs
Grönroos, Juha O.
Peltoniemi, Jutta
Frilander, Heikki
Lindström, Irmeli
Sane, Jussi
author_facet Linkevicius, Marius
Cristea, Veronica
Siira, Lotta
Mäkelä, Henna
Toropainen, Maija
Pitkäpaasi, Marjaana
Dub, Timothee
Nohynek, Hanna
Puumalainen, Taneli
Rintala, Esa
Laaksonen, Merja E.
Feuth, Thijs
Grönroos, Juha O.
Peltoniemi, Jutta
Frilander, Heikki
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description We report an outbreak of invasive pneumococcal disease and pneumococcal pneumonia among shipyard workers, in Turku, Southwest Finland. In total, 31 confirmed and six probable cases were identified between 3 May and 28 November 2019. Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes 12F, 4 and 8 were isolated from blood cultures of 25 cases. Occupational hygiene measures and vaccination of ca 4,000 workers are underway to control the outbreak at the shipyard.
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spelling pubmed-69052972019-12-23 Outbreak of invasive pneumococcal disease among shipyard workers, Turku, Finland, May to November 2019 Linkevicius, Marius Cristea, Veronica Siira, Lotta Mäkelä, Henna Toropainen, Maija Pitkäpaasi, Marjaana Dub, Timothee Nohynek, Hanna Puumalainen, Taneli Rintala, Esa Laaksonen, Merja E. Feuth, Thijs Grönroos, Juha O. Peltoniemi, Jutta Frilander, Heikki Lindström, Irmeli Sane, Jussi Euro Surveill Rapid Communication We report an outbreak of invasive pneumococcal disease and pneumococcal pneumonia among shipyard workers, in Turku, Southwest Finland. In total, 31 confirmed and six probable cases were identified between 3 May and 28 November 2019. Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes 12F, 4 and 8 were isolated from blood cultures of 25 cases. Occupational hygiene measures and vaccination of ca 4,000 workers are underway to control the outbreak at the shipyard. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2019-12-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6905297/ /pubmed/31822326 http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.49.1900681 Text en This article is copyright of the authors or their affiliated institutions, 2019. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.
spellingShingle Rapid Communication
Linkevicius, Marius
Cristea, Veronica
Siira, Lotta
Mäkelä, Henna
Toropainen, Maija
Pitkäpaasi, Marjaana
Dub, Timothee
Nohynek, Hanna
Puumalainen, Taneli
Rintala, Esa
Laaksonen, Merja E.
Feuth, Thijs
Grönroos, Juha O.
Peltoniemi, Jutta
Frilander, Heikki
Lindström, Irmeli
Sane, Jussi
Outbreak of invasive pneumococcal disease among shipyard workers, Turku, Finland, May to November 2019
title Outbreak of invasive pneumococcal disease among shipyard workers, Turku, Finland, May to November 2019
title_full Outbreak of invasive pneumococcal disease among shipyard workers, Turku, Finland, May to November 2019
title_fullStr Outbreak of invasive pneumococcal disease among shipyard workers, Turku, Finland, May to November 2019
title_full_unstemmed Outbreak of invasive pneumococcal disease among shipyard workers, Turku, Finland, May to November 2019
title_short Outbreak of invasive pneumococcal disease among shipyard workers, Turku, Finland, May to November 2019
title_sort outbreak of invasive pneumococcal disease among shipyard workers, turku, finland, may to november 2019
topic Rapid Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6905297/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31822326
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.49.1900681
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