Tomatoes linked to Salmonella outbreak in Sweden; 71 infected

  • Illnesses were recorded in all age groups with 46 women and 25 men ill
  • Analysis of the Salmonella bacterial genome showed disease cases were related and it is likely they were infected by the same source
  • The outbreak strain has multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA) pattern 3-12-11-N-211