| wild boars as an important reservoir for foodborne pathogens. | one hundred fifty-three wild boars shot in the canton of geneva, switzerland, were studied for the occurrence of foodborne pathogens. tonsils and fecal samples of the animals were examined using real-time polymerase chain reaction, enzyme-linked fluorescent immunoassay, and cultural methods. the detection rate of salmonella spp., yersinia enterocolitica, yersinia pseudotuberculosis, stx-positive escherichia coli, and listeria monocytogenes was 12%, 35%, 20%, 9%, and 17%, respectively, when tonsi ... | 2010 | 19899962 |
| outbreak of salmonella serovar stanley infections in switzerland linked to locally produced soft cheese, september 2006 - february 2007. | salmonella serovar stanley is rare in europe. in switzerland, the number of reported isolates has increased from 2 in 2000 to 25 in 2005. a nationwide outbreak of gastrointestinal illness due to s. stanley occurred from september 2006 through february 2007. eighty-two cases were documented. males were 56%; mean age of the cases was 45.7 years (range 0-92). forty-seven cases (57%) occurred in three western cantons: vaud, bern, and geneva. twenty-three cases (28%) were hospitalised. in the case-co ... | 2008 | 18801315 |
| origin and spatial-temporal distribution of faecal bacteria in a bay of lake geneva, switzerland. | the origin and distribution of microbial contamination in lake geneva's most polluted bay were assessed using faecal indicator bacteria (fib). the lake is used as drinking water, for recreation and fishing. during 1 year, water samples were taken at 23 points in the bay and three contamination sources: a wastewater treatment plant (wwtp), a river and a storm water outlet. analyses included escherichia coli, enterococci (ent), total coliforms (tc), and heterotrophic plate counts (hpc). e. coli in ... | 2009 | 18563603 |
| etiological agents of infectious diarrhea: implications for requests for microbial culture. | gastrointestinal infections remain a frequent disease worldwide. in order to increase our knowledge of the epidemiology for our patient population, we retrospectively analyzed the results obtained for stool samples received at the clinical microbiology laboratory of the university hospital of geneva during a 4-year period. a total of 13,965 specimens from 7,124 patients (1.96 specimens per patient) were cultured, yielding 369 (2.6%) salmonella spp., 408 (2.9%) campylobacter spp., and 79 (0.6%) s ... | 1997 | 9163457 |
| typhoid fever imported from mexico to switzerland. studies on r factor mediated chloramphenicol resistance. | a case of typhoid fever caused by salmonella typhi occurred in geneva. the patient was probably infected in mexico city. the strain isolated from this patient corresponds with the description of the mexican s. typhi strain, since it is a degraded vi-strain resistant to chloramphenicol, streptomycin, sulphonamides and tetracyclines. it carried an fi(-) transferable r factor with a cssut resistance pattern. it can be accepted that this case forms part of the mexican outbreak of chloramphenicol-res ... | 1973 | 4518350 |