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ArticleEuro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin2023

Foodborne botulism outbreak involving different nationalities during the Rugby World Cup: critical role of credit card data and rapid international cooperation, France, September 2023.

Laure Meurice, Laurent Filleul, Aurélie Fischer, Annie Burbaud, Gauthier Delvallez, Laure Diancourt, Sophie Belichon, Benjamin Clouzeau, Denis Malvy, Magali Oliva-Labadie and 7 more

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Article in Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
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  3. Review of Foodborne Botulism in the UK: 2006-2024.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  4. Conflicting Clinical Presentation of Infection withJournal of pediatrics. Clinical practice · 2025
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  8. Botulism in fish: a review.Journal of veterinary diagnostic investigation : official publication of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, Inc · 2024
    Review
  9. Approaching pathogenicbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
    Article
  10. Where are we now?Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors.

Laure MeuriceSanté publique France, Regional office in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France.
Laurent FilleulSanté publique France, Regional office in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France.
Aurélie FischerRegional health agency Nouvelle-Aquitaine (ARS Nouvelle-Aquitaine), Bordeaux, France.
Annie BurbaudRegional health agency Nouvelle-Aquitaine (ARS Nouvelle-Aquitaine), Bordeaux, France.
Gauthier DelvallezNational Reference Center for Anaerobic Bacteria and Botulism, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France.
Laure DiancourtNational Reference Center for Anaerobic Bacteria and Botulism, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France.
Sophie BelichonDirection Générale de l'Alimentation (DGAL), Paris, France.
Benjamin ClouzeauBordeaux Hospital Center, Bordeaux, France.
Denis MalvyBordeaux Hospital Center, Bordeaux, France.
Magali Oliva-LabadiePoison control center, Bordeaux Hospital Center, Bordeaux, France.
Coralie BragançaPoison control center, Bordeaux Hospital Center, Bordeaux, France.
Hendrik WilkingRobert Koch Institute, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Berlin, Germany.
Rafaela FrancaHealth Service Executive - Health Protection Surveillance Centre, Dublin, Ireland.
Greg MartinHealth Service Executive - Health Protection Surveillance Centre, Dublin, Ireland.
Gauri GodboleUnited Kingdom Health Security Agency, Gastrointestinal Pathogens and Food Safety (One Health) Division, London, United Kingdom.
Mathieu TourdjmanSanté publique France, Department of Infectious Disease, Saint-Maurice, France.
Nathalie Jourdan-Da SilvaSanté publique France, Department of Infectious Disease, Saint-Maurice, France.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In September 2023, a severe outbreak of type B botulism with fifteen cases was linked to consumption of canned sardines at a restaurant in Bordeaux, France, during the Rugby World Cup. The cases were from seven countries. One death was recorded. Outbreak investigation using credit card data, rapid communication between health authorities of the affected countries and broad media communication allowed identification of cases and exposed persons and prevented further severe outcomes.

Indexed as

BotulismClostridium botulinumDisease OutbreaksFranceHumansRugbybotulismClostridium botulinumcredit card datadisease outbreakfoodborne diseasesmass gathering

Identifiers

PMID37997664
PMCPMC10668258

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