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Enterobacter sakazakii (Cronobacter spp.) in powdered follow-up formula: Meeting Report. Microbiological Risk Assessment Series (MRA) 15

Year of publication 2008

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 97 p.

Author FAO/ WHO

Publisher FAO/WHO ;

Product type Book (series)

ISBN 978-92-5-1061190

Series title Microbiological Risk Assessment Series

Series number 15

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) E. sakazakii (Cronobacter spp.) is a Gram-negative, motile, peritrichous non-spore forming, facultative anaerobic bacterium. It is an opportunistic pathogen and has been linked with serious infections in infants (FAO/WHO, 2004, 2006; Mullane et al., 2007a), notably following the consumption of PIF. Often described as an emerging pathogen, E. sakazakii (Cronobacter spp.) can cause bacteraemia and meningitis in infants and has also been isolated from infants in association with necrotizi ng enterocolitis (NEC). The first cases attributed to this organism occurred in 1958 in England (Urmenyi and Franklin, 1961). Since then and up to July 2008, the meeting has identified around 120 documented cases of E. sakazakii infection and at least 27 deaths from all parts of the world, in the published literature and in reports submitted by public health organizations and laboratories (Annex 1).

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