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Volume 22, Number 10—October 2016
Synopsis

Outbreaks of Human Salmonella Infections Associated with Live Poultry, United States, 1990–2014

Colin BaslerComments to Author , Thai-An Nguyen, Tara C. Anderson, Thane Hancock, and Casey Barton Behravesh
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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Table 1

Details on live poultry–associated salmonellosis outbreaks, by year, United States, 1990–2014

Year
 Serotype
 No. illnesses
 No. hospitalizations
 No. deaths
 Month of first illness in outbreak
 Outbreak duration, mo
 Reference(s)
1991 Hadar 22 4 0 April 2 (16)
1995 Montevideo 12 3 0 April 2 (17)
1996 Montevideo 11 0 0 April 2 (17)
1996 Montevideo 16 2 0 March 4 (17)
1999 Infantis 21 3 0 April 2 (18,19)
1999 Typhimurium 40 3 0 April 2 (18)
2000 Infantis 5 2 0 May 1 (19)
2000 Montevideo 4 0 0 May 2
2000 Agona 4 0 0 February
2000 Montevideo 7 0 0
2002 Montevideo 21 0 0 March 2
2003 Thompson 31 4 0 May 2
2003 Unknown 5 0 0
2004 Montevideo 4 0 0 March 2
2004 Typhimurium 18 0 0 March
2005 Montevideo 53 6 0 April (20)
2005 Ohio 12 0 0
2006 Typhimurium 14 7 0 May
2006 I 4,[5],12:i:- 64 7 0 April 6 (21)
2006 Montevideo 84 8 0 (20,21)
2006 Ohio 4 1 0 (21)
2007 Montevideo 64 8 0 February 11 (20)
2007 Montevideo 65 3 0 March 7 (22)
2008 Kiambu 32 0 0 March 4
2008 Montevideo 12 4 0 (20)
2008 Montevideo 66
2009 Montevideo 96 16 1 January 12 (20)
2009 Johannesburg 7 2 0 May 1 (23)
2009 Thompson 26 1 0 February 6 (22)
2009 Typhimurium 36 7 0 May 4 (23,24)
2009 Pomona 6 0 0 March
2009 Montevideo 15 1 0 (23)
2010 Typhimurium 54 0 0 May 4
2010 Montevideo 55 7 0 February 4 (20)
2010 Braenderup 7 0 February
2011 Johannesburg, Altona 96 20 0 February (25,26)
2011 Berta 9 1 0 April 3
2011 Hadar 25 2 0 March 5
2011 Montevideo 28 2 0 March (20)
2012 Infantis 54 4 0 February 8
2012 Braenderup 48 6 0 July 6
2012 Infantis 27 7 0 April 5
2012 Muenchen 21 1 0 March 6
2012 Hadar 46 13 0 March 5 (27)
2012 Montevideo 93 21 1 February 7 (28)
2012 Infantis, Newport, Lille, Thompson 195 34 3 March 6 (29,30)
2012 Thompson 33 4 0 February 8
2013 Braenderup 53 1 0 March 5
2013 Infantis, Mbandaka, Lille, Newport 158 29 0 March 7 (31–33)
2013 Montevideo 12 0 0 April
2013 Typhimurium 356 62 0 March 7 (33)
2014 Infantis, Newport, Hadar 363 76 0 February 9
2014
 Typhimurium
 20
 5
 0
 March
 7
Total 2,630 387 5 March (median) 4.9 mo (median)

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