| 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. | 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. | 2016 | 26621565 |