Nationwide outbreak of Salmonella enterica serotype Give infections in infants in France, linked to infant milk formula, September 2008

N Jourdan; S Le Hello; G Delmas; J Clouzeau; C Manteau; B Désaubliaux; V Chagnon; F Thierry-Bled; N Demare; F X Weill; H de Valk

doi:10.2807/ese.13.39.18994-en

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Nationwide outbreak of Salmonella enterica serotype Give infections in infants in France, linked to infant milk formula, September 2008
N Jourdan¹ , S Le Hello² , G Delmas¹ , J Clouzeau³ , C Manteau⁴ , B Désaubliaux⁵ , V Chagnon⁶ , F Thierry-Bled⁷ , N Demare⁸ , F X Weill² , H de Valk¹
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Affiliations: ¹ Institut de veille sanitaire, St Maurice, France ² Centre National de Référence des Salmonelles, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France ³ Hôpital de Niort, service de pédiatrie, France ⁴ Hôpital de Nantes, clinique pédiatrique, France ⁵ Direction Départementale des Affaires Sanitaires et Sociales (DDASS) de Loire Atlantique, France ⁶ Direction Départementale des Affaires Sanitaires et Sociales (DDASS) des Deux-Sèvres, France ⁷ Direction Générale de la Consommation de la Concurrence et de la Répression des Fraudes (DGCCRF), France ⁸ Agence Française de Sécurité Sanitaire des Produits de Santé (AFSSAPS), France

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Citation style for this article: Jourdan N, Le Hello S, Delmas G, Clouzeau J, Manteau C, Désaubliaux B, Chagnon V, Thierry-Bled F, Demare N, Weill F X, de Valk H. Nationwide outbreak of Salmonella enterica serotype Give infections in infants in France, linked to infant milk formula, September 2008. Euro Surveill. 2008;13(39):pii=18994. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.13.39.18994-en Received: 25 Sept 2008

Abstract

On Thursday 18 September 2008, the hospital of Nantes in west France informed the District Health Office of a case of salmonellosis in an exclusively bottle-fed infant. On Monday morning 22 September, two additional cases of salmonellosis in infants were reported by the hospital of Niort in southwest France. The serotype of the three cases was unknown at that time.