A multi-country outbreak of Salmonella Newport gastroenteritis in Europe associated with watermelon from Brazil, confirmed by whole genome sequencing: October

L Byrne ([email protected])1, I Fisher1, T Peters2, A Mather3, N Thomson3, B Rosner4, H Bernard4, P McKeown5, M Cormican6, J Cowden7, V Aiyedun1, C Lane1, on behalf of the International Outbreak Control Team8 1. Gastrointestinal, Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, Public Health England, Colindale, London, United Kingdom 2. Gastrointestinal Bacteria Reference Unit, Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, Public Health England, Colindale, London, United Kingdom 3. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom 4. Robert Koch Institute, Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Berlin, Germany 5. Health Protection Surveillance Centre, Dublin, Ireland 6. National Salmonella, Shigella, Listeria Reference Laboratory, Galway University Hospital, Newcastle Road, Galway, Ireland 7. Health Protection Scotland, Glasgow, United Kingdom 8. The members of the team are listed at the end of the article.