Investigation and management of an outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium DT8 associated with duck

P Garvey ([email protected])1, P McKeown1, P Kelly2, M Cormican3, W Anderson4, A Flack2, S Barron2, N De Lappe3, J Buckley5, C Cosgrove6, D Molloy6, J O’Connor3, P O’Sullivan7, J Matthews4, M Ward8, A Breslin9, M B O’Sullivan10, K Kelleher11, A McNamara12, C Foley-Nolan13, H Pelly14, F Cloak1, Outbreak control team15 1. Health Protection Surveillance Centre, Dublin, Ireland 2. Irish Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Dublin, Ireland 3. National Salmonella, Shigella and Listeria Reference Laboratory, Medical Microbiology Department, University Hospital Galway, Galway, Ireland 4. Food Safety Authority of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland 5. Veterinary Department, Cork County Council, Cork, Ireland 6. Health Service Executive, Communicable Disease Unit of the Environmental Health Service, Blanchardstown Dublin, Ireland 7. Department of Public Health, Health Service Executive Mid-West, Department of Public Health, HSE West, Limerick, Ireland 8. Department of Public Health, Health Service Executive East, Dr Steeven’s Hospital, Dublin, Irelan 9. Department of Public Health Medicine, Health Service Executive North West, Sligo, Ireland 10. Department of Public Health, Health Service Executive South, Wilton, Cork, Ireland 11. National Office for Health Protection, Health Service Executive Offices, Limerick, Ireland 12. Department of Public Health, Health Service Executive Dublin/Mid-Leinster, Tullamore Co. Offaly, Ireland 13. Food Safety Promotion Board, Cork, Ireland 14. Department of Public Health, Health Service Executive West, Merlin Park Hospital, Galway, Ireland 15. The remaining members of the team are listed at the end of the article