TY - JOUR T1 - Outbreak of Central American born Shigella sonnei in two youth camps in Belgium in the summer of 2019 JF - European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases Y1 - 2021 A1 - An Van den Bossche A1 - Pieter-Jan Ceyssens A1 - Sarah Denayer A1 - Naïma Hammami A1 - Maaike van den Beld A1 - Timothy J Dallman A1 - Wesley Mattheus KW - Cluster analyses KW - Next-generation sequencing KW - outbreak KW - Shigella sonnei AB -

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. 

M3 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10096-021-04164-y ER -