TY - GEN T1 - Listeriosis outbreak caused by acid curd cheese ‘Quargel’, Austria and Germany 2009 AU - Fretz, Rainer AU - Sagel, U. AU - Ruppitsch, W. AU - Pietzka, A. T. AU - Stöger, A. AU - Huhulescu, S. AU - Heuberger, S. AU - Pichler, J. AU - Much, P. AU - Pfaff, Günter AU - Stark, Klaus AU - Prager, Rita AU - Flieger, Antje AU - Feenstra, O. AU - Allerberger, F. AB - We report an outbreak of listeriosis in Austria and Germany due to the consumption of ‘Quargel’ cheese produced by an Austrian manufacturer. At the time of writing this report, the outbreak was known to account for 14 outbreak cases in 2009, including four cases with lethal outcome. On 23 January 2010, the cheese product was voluntarily withdrawn from the market. KW - Aged KW - 80 and over KW - Humans KW - Female KW - Disease Outbreaks KW - Germany/epidemiology KW - Male KW - Middle Aged KW - Aged KW - Food Microbiology KW - Cheese/microbiology KW - Austria/epidemiology KW - Foodborne Diseases/epidemiology KW - Listeria Infections/epidemiology KW - 610 Medizin PY - 2010 LA - eng PB - Robert Koch-Institut VL - 15 IS - 5 DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.25646/540 ER -