Email Correspondence 7

Email correspondence 7/8/05 from Dayna Ferguson, MD, CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, CDPHE regarding the E.coli o157:MN outbreak in Georgia, 2004

Dear Mr. Rust:

“Thanks for your interest in the article.  I’ve attached a pdf copy per your request.  We did PFGE match the E. coli O157 isolates from Colorado and Minnesota.  The seed lots in these two outbreaks were different although they both traced back to seeds from the same producer in Australia.

Although the isolates from Georgia were also a PFGE match, Georgia was not included in this report.”

Dayna Ferguson

 

[Note:  this correspondence relates to the following reports:  “Temporally distinct Escherichia coli 0157 outbreaks associated with alfalfa sprouts linked to a common seed source–Colorado and Minnesota, 2003.” Epidemiol Infect. 2005 Jun;133(3):439-47, Ferguson DD, Scheftel J, Cronquist A, Smith K, Woo-Ming A, Anderson E, Knutsen J, De AK, Gershman K., Epidemic Intelligence Service, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver, CO 80246, USA.

“An Outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:Nonmotile Associated with Alfalfa Sprouts – Colorado, July 2003” DD Ferguson, MD, A Cronquist, MPH, J Scheftel, DVM, MPH, A Woo-Ming, K Gershman, MD, MPH, J Knutsen, AK De, PhD

“Escherichia coli 0157 Infection and Hemolytic Uremit Syndrome (HUS), 2003” Minnesota Department of Health, Disease Control Newsletter

“Outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:NM Associated Alfalfa Sprout Consumption Colorado, 2003” Dayna Ferguson, MD, CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, CDPHE

“E. coli O157:H7 Infections Associated with Alfalfa Sprouts January (2003) ~ Hennepin and Ramsey Counties” Minnesota Department of Health 2003 Gastroenteritis Outbreak Summary