Salmonella Vitkin Outbreak Associated with Bearded Dragons, Canada and United States, 2021-2022

We identified 2 cases of Salmonella enterica serovar Vitkin infection linked by whole-genome sequencing in infants in Ontario, Canada, during 2022. Both households of the infants reported having bearded dragons as pets. The outbreak strain was also isolated from an environmental sample collected fro...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Emerging infectious diseases 2024-02, Vol.30 (2), p.225-233
Hauptverfasser:	Paphitis, Katherine, Habrun, Caroline A, Stapleton, G. Sean, Reid, Alexandra, Lee, Christina, Majury, Anna, Murphy, Allana, McClinchey, Heather, Corbeil, Antoine, Kearney, Ashley, Benedict, Katharine, Tolar, Beth, Forrest, Russell O
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Animals as carriers of disease bacteria bearded dragons Causes of Disease control Distribution Epidemics Epidemiology Genomes Health aspects Health surveillance Households Illnesses Infants infections Interviews Medical laboratories outbreak Outbreaks Public health reptiles Reptiles & amphibians Salmonella Salmonella enterica serovar Vitkin Salmonellosis Zoonoses
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Zusammenfassung:	We identified 2 cases of Salmonella enterica serovar Vitkin infection linked by whole-genome sequencing in infants in Ontario, Canada, during 2022. Both households of the infants reported having bearded dragons as pets. The outbreak strain was also isolated from an environmental sample collected from a patient’s bearded dragon enclosure. Twelve cases were detected in the United States, and onset dates occurred during March 2021–September 2022 (isolates related to isolates from Canada within 0–9 allele differences by core-genome multilocus sequence typing). Most US patients (66.7%) were
ISSN:	1080-6040 1080-6059
DOI:	10.3201/eid3002.230963