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Case Reports
. 2018 Feb;24(2):393-394.
doi: 10.3201/eid2402.171411.

Cronobacter sakazakii Infection from Expressed Breast Milk, Australia

Rowena McMullan, Vidthiya Menon, Alicia G Beukers, Slade O Jensen, Sebastiaan J van Hal, Rebecca Davis
Case Reports

Cronobacter sakazakii Infection from Expressed Breast Milk, Australia

Rowena McMullan et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2018 Feb.

Abstract

Cronobacter sakazakii neonatal infections are often epidemiologically linked to the consumption of contaminated powdered infant formula. We describe a case resulting from consumption of contaminated expressed breast milk, as confirmed by whole-genome sequencing. This case highlights potential risks associated with storage and acquisition of expressed breast milk.

Keywords: Australia; Cronobacter sakazakii; bacteria; bacterial infections; expressed breast milk; meningitis/encephalitis; neonates.

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Maximum-likelihood phylogeny of Cronobacter isolates cultured from the blood of an infant (Ck0001) and the mother’s expressed breast milk (Ck0002) with C. sakazakii Sp291 as reference. Shaded circle highlights the clustering of sequence type 4 isolates. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site. Methods for culturing isolates described in Technical Appendix. ST, sequence type.
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