title: Case Report: An Outbreak of Food-Borne Typhoid Fever Due to Salmonella enterica Serotype Typhi in Japan Reported for the First Time in 16 Years.
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.
authors.forename: Tetsuro
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authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kutsuna
authors.forename: Kayoko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hayakawa
authors.forename: Yasuyuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: Norio
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ohmagari
authors.forename: Hideko
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Uryu
authors.forename: Ritsuko
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: Naoyuki
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authors.lastname: Kashiwa
authors.forename: Takahito
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authors.lastname: Nei
authors.forename: Akihito
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ehara
authors.forename: Reiko
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Takei
authors.forename: Nobuaki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mori
authors.forename: Yasuhiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: Tomomi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hayasaka
authors.forename: Narito
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kagawa
authors.forename: Momoko
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authors.lastname: Sugawara
authors.forename: Ai
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Suzaki
authors.forename: Yuno
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nishiyama
authors.forename: Masatomo
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authors.lastname: Morita
authors.forename: Hidemasa
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authors.lastname: Izumiya
authors.forename: Makoto
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authors.lastname: Ohnishi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005260:Female; D005517:Foodborne Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D014435:Typhoid Fever / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D055815:Young Adult