Table 2.

Fifty-one foodborne outbreaks in Germany, 1974–2009

Federal state	Year	Type of outbreak			Source	Phage type and/or PFGE type
		Family	Community	Nosocomial
Baden-Württemberg	2002	x			—*	PT24
	2002			x	—	PT29/XB27
	2003			x	—	PT29/XB27
	2004			x	—	PT29/XB27
	2007			x	—	PT29/XB27
	2008			x	—	PT29/XB27
	2009			x	Food or carrier	PT29/XB27
Bavaria	1997		x		Raw sausage	PT09
	2004			x	Cake or carrier	PT53/XB06
	2004			x	Cake or carrier	PT53/XB06
Brandenburg	2004		x		Pork	PT11/XB07
Berlin	2002	x			—	PT01
Hesse	1975		x		—	PT23
	1997	x			—	PT33
Mecklenburg-West Pomerania	1998		x		—	PT29
	1999	x			—	PT01
	1999	x			—	PT01
	2002	x			—	PT01
Lower Saxony	1974		x		Rice pudding	PT01
	1998		x		Raw eggs	PT08/XB43a
	2002	x			—	PT29
	2006		x		—	PT29
	2007		x		—	PT29/XB06
	2007	x			—	PT29/XB27a
North Rhine-Westphalia	1996	x			—	PT29
	1999			x	—	PT01
	2000			x	—	PT24/XB02
	2007		x		Carrier or roast pork	PT01/XB34a
	2008		x		—	PT21/XB01a
	2008		x		Broiler chicken	PT01/XB34
Saxony-Anhalt	1996	x			Carrier	PT29
	1997	x			—	PT30
	2001	x			—	PT01
	2001	x			—	PT01
	2002	x			—	PT01
	2003	x			—	PT11
	2004	x			Carrier	PT29
	2005	x			—	PT24/XB02
	2005	x			Carrier	PT30
	2007	x			—	PT29/XB06
Schleswig-Holstein	2003		x		—	PT01
Thuringia	1999	x			—	PT04/XB04
	2000	x			—	PT19
	2000	x			—	PT09
	2002		x		—	PT11
	2003	x			—	PT24
	2006		x		—	PT29/XB27
	2007		x		—	PT29/XB27a
	2007	x			Carrier	PT29/XB27
	2007	x			—	PT29/XB27b
	2008			x	—	PT29/XB27a

^*Unknown source.