Publications by authors named "Venessa Cantu"
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- An outbreak of listeriosis was linked to ice cream products from Company A, identified through a cluster of illnesses at a Kansas hospital and simultaneous product testing in South Carolina.
- Genome sequencing revealed a connection between the illnesses of four patients who consumed the contaminated ice cream while hospitalized and isolates found in Company A's products.
- The investigation found that the contamination may have persisted for years, spanning from 2010 to 2015, leading to a total of ten illnesses and three deaths, prompting a recall of all Company A products.
Background: Nontyphoidal Salmonella causes ~1 million food-borne infections annually in the United States. We began investigating a multistate outbreak of Salmonella serotype Agona infections in April 2011.
Methods: A case was defined as infection with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Agona occurring between 1 January and 25 August 2011.
Notes from the field: multistate outbreak of listeriosis linked to soft-ripened cheese--United States, 2013.
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep
April 2014
Article Synopsis
- * An investigation revealed additional Listeria isolates from other states and linked them to Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese, whose environmental samples matched those from the two initial patients.
- * By June 28, five cases of listeriosis were confirmed across four states, affecting primarily older adults, with serious outcomes reported including one death and one miscarriage.
Multistate outbreak of listeriosis associated with cantaloupe.
N Engl J Med
September 2013
Background: Although new pathogen-vehicle combinations are increasingly being identified in produce-related disease outbreaks, fresh produce is a rarely recognized vehicle for listeriosis. We investigated a nationwide listeriosis outbreak that occurred in the United States during 2011.
Methods: We defined an outbreak-related case as a laboratory-confirmed infection with any of five outbreak-related subtypes of Listeria monocytogenes isolated during the period from August 1 through October 31, 2011.
Cholera is rare in the United States (annual average 6 cases). Since epidemic cholera began in Hispaniola in 2010, a total of 23 cholera cases caused by toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 have been confirmed in the United States. Twenty-two case-patients reported travel to Hispaniola and 1 reported consumption of seafood from Haiti.
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