TY - JOUR AU - Nüesch-Inderbinen, Magdalena AU - Bloemberg, Guido AU - Müller, Andrea AU - Stevens, Marc J.A. AU - Cernela, Nicole AU - Kollöffel, Beat AU - Stephan, Roger T1 - Listeriosis Caused by Persistence of Listeria monocytogenes Serotype 4b Sequence Type 6 in Cheese Production Environment T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2021 VL - 27 IS - 1 SP - 284 SN - 1080-6059 AB - A nationwide outbreak of human listeriosis in Switzerland was traced to persisting environmental contamination of a cheese dairy with Listeria monocytogenes serotype 4b, sequence type 6, cluster type 7488. Whole-genome sequencing was used to match clinical isolates to a cheese sample and to samples from numerous sites within the production environment. KW - outbreak KW - listeriosis KW - Listeria monocytogenes KW - bacteria KW - serotype 4b KW - sequence type 6 KW - ST6 KW - hypervirulent emerging clone KW - cheese KW - cheese production environment KW - contamination KW - persistence KW - food safety DO - 10.3201/eid2701.203266 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/1/20-3266_article ER - End of Reference