Get Ready for Intensified Surveillance on SE

摘要

Although data derived from the Food-Net database indicated a relatively low incidence rate (see glossary) of 2.32 cases of Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) per 100,000 population in the United States during 2005, the plateau of approximately 30 outbreaks per year since 2002 is of concern to regulatory authorities. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has derived a mid-range estimate of 66 percent of incident (new) cases of SE as being attributable to consumption of contaminated eggs.Although subject to debate, the CDC has calculated that approximately 120,000 incident cases of SE are derived from eggs each year in the United States. This is attributed to persistence of infection in flocks in the Midwest and Western states and to a lower level of transmission to consumers in the Mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes regions.