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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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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 |
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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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