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1250 infection control & hospital epidemiology october 2015, vol. 36, no. 10 acknowledgments


Financial support: No financial support was provided relevant to this article. Potential conflicts of interest: All authors and coauthors deny any potential


conflict of interest (eg, employment, consulting fees, research contracts, stock ownership, patent licenses, honoraria, advisory affiliations, etc.).


Matthias Napp, MD;1 Georg Daeschlein, MD;2


Sebastian von Podewils, MA;2


Romy Spitzmueller, Dipl. Ing.;2 Denis Guembel, MD;1,3 Michael Juenger, MD;2 Peter Hinz, MD1


Affiliations: 1. Department of Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery, Clinic of


Surgery, Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Sauerbruchstrasse, 17489 Greifs- wald, Germany; 2. Clinic of Dermatology, Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Sauerbruchstrasse, 17489 Greifswald, Germany; 3. Emergency Hospital Ber- lin (ukb), Warener Straße 7, 12683 Berlin, Germany Address correspondence to Georg Daeschlein, MD, Clinic of Dermatology,


Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Sauerbruchstrasse, 17489 Greifswald, Germany (georg.daeschlein@uni-greifswald.de). Infect. Control Hosp. Epidemiol. 2015;36(10):1249–1250 © 2015 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved. 0899-823X/2015/3610-0021. DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.164


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A Small Outbreak of Food Poisoning Among Attendees of a Public Health Thesis Examination Conference


To the Editor—Food poisoning is an important gastrointestinal problem and outbreaks are commonly reported. However, out- breaks of food poisoning inmedical centers are rarely reported.1–3 For example, Chávez-de la Peña et al2 and Metz et al3 reported outbreaks of Salmonella gastroenteritis among hospital staff. One interesting situation involves outbreaks that occur during medical school conferences.1 Herein, the authors report a small outbreak of food poisoning that occurred among attendees of a public health thesis examination conference. During the 6-hour examination, several desertswere served to the attendees. After the conference, a medical professor and a student developed acute symptoms of food poisoning.The professor had more severe symptoms with many episodes of diarrhea and vomiting. A previous report by Vinnard et al1 detailed a similar outbreak among medical conference attendees. Vinnard et al1 found “multiple food source contamination as the source of the outbreak.”1(p73) In the present case, the exact microbiologic cause of contamination could not be determined because no samples of the contaminated food were available for study. Indeed, most medical centers and hospitals prepare their own food, so adherence to food cleanness and safety standards is expected.However, during a conference, food is typically catered from outside sources and contamination is possible.3


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Financial support. None reported. Potential conflicts of interest. Both authors report no conflicts of interest relevant to this article.


Wasana Kaewla, PhD; Viroj Wiwanitkit, MD


Affiliations: Public Health Curriculum, Surin Rajabhat University, Surin, Thailand. Address correspondence to Wasana Kaewla, Public Health Curriculum,


Surin Rajabhat University, Surin, Thailand (wasanak3@hotmail.com). Infect. Control Hosp. Epidemiol. 2015;36(10):1250 © 2015 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved. 0899-823X/2015/3610-0022. DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.162


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2. Chávez-de la Peña ME, Higuera-Iglesias AL, Huertas-Jiménez MA, et al. An outbreak of Salmonella gastroenteritis among hospital workers. Salud PublicaMex 2001;43:211–216.


3. Metz R, Jahn B, Kohnen W, Viertel A, Jansen B. Outbreak of Salmonella enteritidis gastrointestinal infections among medical staff due to contaminated food prepared outside the hospital. J Hosp Infect 2001;48:324–325.


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