

@article {8021,
	title = {{Nationwide outbreak of STEC O157 infection in the Netherlands, December 2008-January 2009: continuous risk of consuming raw beef products.}},
	journal = {Euro Surveillance : Bulletin Européen sur les Maladies Transmissibles = European Communicable Disease Bulletin},
	volume = {14},
	number = {8},
	year = {2009},
	month = {feb},
	abstract = {<p>The Netherlands experienced a nationwide outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) O157 with onset of symptoms from the end of December 2008 until the end of January 2009. A total of 20 laboratory-confirmed cases were linked to the outbreak strain, serotype O157: H-, stx1, stx2, eae and e-hly positive. The investigation into the source of this outbreak is still ongoing, but evidence so far suggests that infection occurred as a result of consuming contaminated raw meat (steak tartare).</p>
},
	issn = {1560-7917},
	url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19250626},
	author = {Greenland, K and de Jager, C and Heuvelink, A and van der Zwaluw, K and Heck, M and Notermans, D and Van Pelt, W and Friesema, I}
}
