Sprouts are it - "strain from sprouts identical to strain from infected patient"

"EHEC outbreak: BfR confirms contamination of sprouts with O104:H4 

11.06.2011

Who confirmed?  The National Reference Laboratory for Escherichia coli at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR). Their mission: "Identify risks - Protect health" - this is the guiding principle for the work of the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) in the field of consumer health protection.

What is the news (and it's big)?  "Strain from the sprouts is identical to strain from the infected patients"

Further reading:

"Scientists of the National Reference Laboratory for Escherichia coli at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) have confirmed the results of the Land authorities in North Rhine-Westphalia: Raw sprouts contaminated with EHEC, which originated from the household of EHEC patients in North Rhine-Westphalia, were contaminated with the EHEC strain O104:H4."

For the microbiologists:
" In a real-time PCR of the single colonies cultivated from the sample the strain was identified as O104, fliC H4, stx2, aggR and was identical to the EHEC O104:H4 strains isolated from patients."
For the "how did they do it crowd":
"Although the samples originated from an open sprout packaging from a household in which patients infected with EHEC lived, it can be assumed with a very high probability that the EHEC outbreak with severe disorders and fatalities is attributable, more particularly to the consumption of raw sprouts."


http://www.bfr.bund.de/en/press_information/2011/17/ehec_outbreak__bfr_confirms_contamination_of_sprouts_with_o104_h4-70937.html