A foodborne outbreak of brucellosis at a police station cafeteria, Lima, Peru

Vinetz, Joseph Michael; Smits, Henk L.; Castillo, Rosa; Calderón Sánchez, Maritza Mercedes; Gilman, Robert Hugh; Guerra, Humberto; Gotuzzo Herencia, José Eduardo; Matthias, Michael A.; Román, Karina; Céspedes, Manuel; Saito, Mayuko; Vivar, Aldo; Meléndez, Paolo; Maves, Ryan C.

dc.contributor.author	Román, Karina
dc.contributor.author	Castillo, Rosa
dc.contributor.author	Gilman, Robert Hugh
dc.contributor.author	Calderón Sánchez, Maritza Mercedes
dc.contributor.author	Vivar, Aldo
dc.contributor.author	Céspedes, Manuel
dc.contributor.author	Smits, Henk L.
dc.contributor.author	Meléndez, Paolo
dc.contributor.author	Gotuzzo Herencia, José Eduardo
dc.contributor.author	Guerra, Humberto
dc.contributor.author	Maves, Ryan C.
dc.contributor.author	Matthias, Michael A.
dc.contributor.author	Vinetz, Joseph Michael
dc.contributor.author	Saito, Mayuko
dc.date.accessioned	2022-01-04T20:33:20Z
dc.date.available	2022-01-04T20:33:20Z
dc.date.issued	2013
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/10754
dc.description.abstract	Brucella melitensis is highly infectious for humans and can be transmitted to humans in a number of epidemiological contexts. Within the context of an ongoing brucellosis surveillance project, an outbreak at a Peruvian police officer cafeteria was discovered, which led to active surveillance (serology, blood culture) for additional cases among 49 police officers who had also eaten there. The cohort was followed up to 18 months regardless of treatment or symptoms. Active surveillance estimated the attack rate at 26.5% (13 of 49). Blood cultures from four cases were positive; these isolates were indistinguishable using multiple locus variable number tandem repeat analysis. This investigation indicates the importance of case tracking and active surveillance for brucellosis in the context of potential common source exposure. These results provide rationale for public health investigations of brucellosis index cases including the bioterrorism-related dissemination of Brucella.	en_US
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
dc.relation.ispartofseries	American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.subject	Animals	en_US
dc.subject	genetics	en_US
dc.subject	Humans	en_US
dc.subject	Peru	en_US
dc.subject	isolation and purification	en_US
dc.subject	immunoglobulin G	en_US
dc.subject	disease surveillance	en_US
dc.subject	Time Factors	en_US
dc.subject	bacterial gene	en_US
dc.subject	microbiology	en_US
dc.subject	food control	en_US
dc.subject	genotype	en_US
dc.subject	time	en_US
dc.subject	article	en_US
dc.subject	fever	en_US
dc.subject	clinical article	en_US
dc.subject	follow up	en_US
dc.subject	epidemic	en_US
dc.subject	gene locus	en_US
dc.subject	arthralgia	en_US
dc.subject	headache	en_US
dc.subject	myalgia	en_US
dc.subject	blood culture	en_US
dc.subject	Brucella melitensis	en_US
dc.subject	brucellosis	en_US
dc.subject	Brucellosis	en_US
dc.subject	Food Microbiology	en_US
dc.subject	chill	en_US
dc.subject	Disease Outbreaks	en_US
dc.subject	food intake	en_US
dc.subject	tandem repeat	en_US
dc.subject	laboratory test	en_US
dc.subject	cheese	en_US
dc.subject	Cheese	en_US
dc.subject	contact examination	en_US
dc.subject	Contact Tracing	en_US
dc.subject	dairy product	en_US
dc.subject	food poisoning	en_US
dc.subject	Foodborne Diseases	en_US
dc.subject	goat	en_US
dc.subject	Goats	en_US
dc.subject	immunoglobulin M	en_US
dc.subject	occupational exposure	en_US
dc.subject	Occupational Exposure	en_US
dc.subject	pasteurization	en_US
dc.subject	Pasteurization	en_US
dc.subject	police	en_US
dc.subject	Police	en_US
dc.subject	sweating	en_US
dc.title	A foodborne outbreak of brucellosis at a police station cafeteria, Lima, Peru	en_US
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.12-0606
dc.subject.ocde	https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.03.06
dc.relation.issn	1476-1645