Chart Review of Laboratory-Confirmed Salmonella Enteritidis Cases in a Local Food Borne Outbreak Linked to Mung Bean Sprouts

A retrospective chart review was performed to examine chief complaint, syndrome classification and discharge diagnoses of laboratory confirmed Salmonella Enteritidis phage type (PT) 13 cases who visited the Emergency Departments (ED) of two local hospitals during a province-wide outbreak in Ontario in the fall of 2005. This assessment was used to assess the sensitivity of the ED syn-dromic surveillance system to detect a local foodborne outbreak, and to modify syndrome classification.