Outbreak of Central American born Shigella sonnei in two youth camps in Belgium in the summer of 2019

An Van den Bossche; Pieter Jan Ceyssens; Sarah Denayer; Naïma Hammami; Maaike van den Beld; Timothy J. Dallman; Wesley Mattheus

doi:10.1007/s10096-021-04164-y

Outbreak of Central American born Shigella sonnei in two youth camps in Belgium in the summer of 2019

An Van den Bossche^*, Pieter Jan Ceyssens, Sarah Denayer, Naïma Hammami, Maaike van den Beld, Timothy J. Dallman, Wesley Mattheus

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Abstract

In 2019, an outbreak of Shigella sonnei occurred during two youth camps in Belgium. The clustering of isolates from both camps was confirmed by next-generation sequencing, as well as a secondary infection of a technician. The outbreak strain clustered with internationally isolated strains from patients with recent travel history to Central America. This report exemplifies enhanced surveillance and international collaboration between public health institutes by enabling to link local outbreaks to region-specific sublineages circulating abroad.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1573-1577
Number of pages	5
Journal	European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Volume	40
Issue number	7
Early online date	11 Feb 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10096-021-04164-y
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 11 Feb 2021

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Funding Information: The National Reference Centre of Belgium is partially supported by the Belgian Ministry of Social Affairs through a fund within the Health Insurance System.

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Citation: Van den Bossche, A., Ceyssens, PJ., Denayer, S. et al. Outbreak of Central American born Shigella sonnei in two youth camps in Belgium in the summer of 2019. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 40, 1573–1577 (2021).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10096-021-04164-y

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Cluster analyses
Next-generation sequencing
Outbreak
Shigella sonnei

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Van den Bossche, A., Ceyssens, P. J., Denayer, S., Hammami, N., van den Beld, M., Dallman, T. J., & Mattheus, W. (2021). Outbreak of Central American born Shigella sonnei in two youth camps in Belgium in the summer of 2019. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 40(7), 1573-1577. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10096-021-04164-y

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