0 a large sausage made from meat and spices that has a strong taste and is usually eaten cold in slices
1 a large, strongly flavored sausage (= meat cut into small pieces and shaped in a tube) that is usually eaten cold in slices
The geographic distribution of cases was representative of the market distribution of the contaminated salami.
The individual or combined ingredients were not cooked during production of the salami.
A coordinated outbreak response allowed for early identification of salami as the cause, and a health advisory and product recall to be initiated.
The 28-item case-control study questionnaire asked about exposure to a variety of salami and delicatessen products, as well as symptoms.
All persons who had eaten the salami and all children in those households were identified.
Epidemiological and laboratory investigations identified consumption of contaminated, dry fermented, salami as the cause of the outbreak.
The hypothesis-generating questionnaire was administered to 9 (75 %) of these 12 cases and 7 (77 %) reported eating salami prior to symptom onset.
Our case-control study found a strong association between illness and consumption of salami made by a single producer.
