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First cross-border outbreak of foodborne botulism in the European Union associated with the consumption of commercial dried roach (Rutilus rutilus)

Botulism outbreaks due to commercial products are extremely rare in the European Union. Here we report on the first international outbreak of foodborne botulism caused by commercial salt-cured, dried roach (Rutilus rutilus). Between November and December 2016, an outbreak of six foodborne botulism t...

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Autores principales: Hendrickx, David, Varela Martínez, Carmen, Contzen, Matthias, Wagner-Wiening, Christiane, Janke, Karl-Heinz, Hernando Jiménez, Pablo, Massing, Susanne, Pichler, Jeanette, Tichaczek-Dischinger, Petra, Burckhardt, Florian, Stark, Klaus, Katz, Katharina, Jurke, Annette, Thole, Sebastian, Carbó, Rosa, del Pobil Ferré, Mariam Pascual, Nieto, Milagros, Zamora, María Jesús, Sisó, Ana, Pallares García, Pilar, Valdezate, Sylvia, Schaade, Lars, Worbs, Sylvia, Dorner, Brigitte Gertrud, Frank, Christina, Dorner, Martin Bernhard
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9846170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36684858
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1039770
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author Hendrickx, David
Varela Martínez, Carmen
Contzen, Matthias
Wagner-Wiening, Christiane
Janke, Karl-Heinz
Hernando Jiménez, Pablo
Massing, Susanne
Pichler, Jeanette
Tichaczek-Dischinger, Petra
Burckhardt, Florian
Stark, Klaus
Katz, Katharina
Jurke, Annette
Thole, Sebastian
Carbó, Rosa
del Pobil Ferré, Mariam Pascual
Nieto, Milagros
Zamora, María Jesús
Sisó, Ana
Pallares García, Pilar
Valdezate, Sylvia
Schaade, Lars
Worbs, Sylvia
Dorner, Brigitte Gertrud
Frank, Christina
Dorner, Martin Bernhard
author_facet Hendrickx, David
Varela Martínez, Carmen
Contzen, Matthias
Wagner-Wiening, Christiane
Janke, Karl-Heinz
Hernando Jiménez, Pablo
Massing, Susanne
Pichler, Jeanette
Tichaczek-Dischinger, Petra
Burckhardt, Florian
Stark, Klaus
Katz, Katharina
Jurke, Annette
Thole, Sebastian
Carbó, Rosa
del Pobil Ferré, Mariam Pascual
Nieto, Milagros
Zamora, María Jesús
Sisó, Ana
Pallares García, Pilar
Valdezate, Sylvia
Schaade, Lars
Worbs, Sylvia
Dorner, Brigitte Gertrud
Frank, Christina
Dorner, Martin Bernhard
author_sort Hendrickx, David
collection PubMed
description Botulism outbreaks due to commercial products are extremely rare in the European Union. Here we report on the first international outbreak of foodborne botulism caused by commercial salt-cured, dried roach (Rutilus rutilus). Between November and December 2016, an outbreak of six foodborne botulism type E cases from five unrelated households was documented in Germany and Spain. The outbreak involved persons of Russian and Kazakh backgrounds, all consumed unheated salt-cured, dried roach—a snack particularly favored in Easter-European countries. The implicated food batches had been distributed by an international wholesaler and were recalled from Europe-wide outlets of a supermarket chain and other independent retailers. Of interest, and very unlike to other foodborne disease outbreaks which usually involves a single strain or virus variant, different Clostridium botulinum strains and toxin variants could be identified even from a single patient's sample. Foodborne botulism is a rare but potentially life-threatening disease and almost exclusively involves home-made or artisan products and thus, outbreaks are limited to individual or few cases. As a consequence, international outbreaks are the absolute exception and this is the first one within the European Union. Additional cases were likely prevented by a broad product recall, underscoring the importance of timely public health action. Challenges and difficulties on the diagnostic and epidemiological level encountered in the outbreak are highlighted.
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spelling pubmed-98461702023-01-19 First cross-border outbreak of foodborne botulism in the European Union associated with the consumption of commercial dried roach (Rutilus rutilus) Hendrickx, David Varela Martínez, Carmen Contzen, Matthias Wagner-Wiening, Christiane Janke, Karl-Heinz Hernando Jiménez, Pablo Massing, Susanne Pichler, Jeanette Tichaczek-Dischinger, Petra Burckhardt, Florian Stark, Klaus Katz, Katharina Jurke, Annette Thole, Sebastian Carbó, Rosa del Pobil Ferré, Mariam Pascual Nieto, Milagros Zamora, María Jesús Sisó, Ana Pallares García, Pilar Valdezate, Sylvia Schaade, Lars Worbs, Sylvia Dorner, Brigitte Gertrud Frank, Christina Dorner, Martin Bernhard Front Public Health Public Health Botulism outbreaks due to commercial products are extremely rare in the European Union. Here we report on the first international outbreak of foodborne botulism caused by commercial salt-cured, dried roach (Rutilus rutilus). Between November and December 2016, an outbreak of six foodborne botulism type E cases from five unrelated households was documented in Germany and Spain. The outbreak involved persons of Russian and Kazakh backgrounds, all consumed unheated salt-cured, dried roach—a snack particularly favored in Easter-European countries. The implicated food batches had been distributed by an international wholesaler and were recalled from Europe-wide outlets of a supermarket chain and other independent retailers. Of interest, and very unlike to other foodborne disease outbreaks which usually involves a single strain or virus variant, different Clostridium botulinum strains and toxin variants could be identified even from a single patient's sample. Foodborne botulism is a rare but potentially life-threatening disease and almost exclusively involves home-made or artisan products and thus, outbreaks are limited to individual or few cases. As a consequence, international outbreaks are the absolute exception and this is the first one within the European Union. Additional cases were likely prevented by a broad product recall, underscoring the importance of timely public health action. Challenges and difficulties on the diagnostic and epidemiological level encountered in the outbreak are highlighted. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-01-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9846170/ /pubmed/36684858 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1039770 Text en Copyright © 2023 Hendrickx, Varela Martínez, Contzen, Wagner-Wiening, Janke, Hernando Jiménez, Massing, Pichler, Tichaczek-Dischinger, Burckhardt, Stark, Katz, Jurke, Thole, Carbó, del Pobil Ferré, Nieto, Zamora, Sisó, Pallares García, Valdezate, Schaade, Worbs, Dorner, Frank and Dorner. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Public Health
Hendrickx, David
Varela Martínez, Carmen
Contzen, Matthias
Wagner-Wiening, Christiane
Janke, Karl-Heinz
Hernando Jiménez, Pablo
Massing, Susanne
Pichler, Jeanette
Tichaczek-Dischinger, Petra
Burckhardt, Florian
Stark, Klaus
Katz, Katharina
Jurke, Annette
Thole, Sebastian
Carbó, Rosa
del Pobil Ferré, Mariam Pascual
Nieto, Milagros
Zamora, María Jesús
Sisó, Ana
Pallares García, Pilar
Valdezate, Sylvia
Schaade, Lars
Worbs, Sylvia
Dorner, Brigitte Gertrud
Frank, Christina
Dorner, Martin Bernhard
First cross-border outbreak of foodborne botulism in the European Union associated with the consumption of commercial dried roach (Rutilus rutilus)
title First cross-border outbreak of foodborne botulism in the European Union associated with the consumption of commercial dried roach (Rutilus rutilus)
title_full First cross-border outbreak of foodborne botulism in the European Union associated with the consumption of commercial dried roach (Rutilus rutilus)
title_fullStr First cross-border outbreak of foodborne botulism in the European Union associated with the consumption of commercial dried roach (Rutilus rutilus)
title_full_unstemmed First cross-border outbreak of foodborne botulism in the European Union associated with the consumption of commercial dried roach (Rutilus rutilus)
title_short First cross-border outbreak of foodborne botulism in the European Union associated with the consumption of commercial dried roach (Rutilus rutilus)
title_sort first cross-border outbreak of foodborne botulism in the european union associated with the consumption of commercial dried roach (rutilus rutilus)
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9846170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36684858
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1039770
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