Global and regional source attribution of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli infections using analysis of outbreak surveillance data.

ABSTRACT: Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) infections pose a substantial health and economic burden worldwide. To target interventions to prevent foodborne infections, it is important to determine the types of foods leading to illness. Our objective was to determine the food sources of STEC globally and for the six World Health Organization regions. We used data from STEC outbreaks that have occurred globally to estimate source attribution fractions. We categorised foods according to their ingredients and applied a probabilistic model that used information on implicated foods for source attribution. Data were received from 27 countries covering the period between 1998 and 2017 and three regions: the Americas (AMR), Europe (EUR) and Western-Pacific (WPR). Results showed that the top food

SUBMITTER: Pires SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6625198 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature