Authors
Tetsuro Kobayashi, Satoshi Kutsuna, Kayoko Hayakawa, Yasuyuki Kato, Norio Ohmagari, Hideko Uryu, Ritsuko Yamada, Naoyuki Kashiwa, Takahito Nei, Akihito Ehara, Reiko Takei, Nobuaki Mori, Yasuhiro Yamada, Tomomi Hayasaka, Narito Kagawa, Momoko Sugawara, Ai Suzaki, Yuno Takahashi, Hiroyuki Nishiyama, Masatomo Morita, Hidemasa Izumiya, and Makoto Ohnishi
Abstract
For the first time in 16 years, a food-borne outbreak of typhoid fever due to Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi was reported in Japan. Seven patients consumed food in an Indian buffet at a restaurant in the center of Tokyo, while one was a Nepali chef in the restaurant, an asymptomatic carrier and the implicated source of this outbreak. The multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis showed 100% consistency in the genomic sequence for five of the eight cases.
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