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Campylobacter fetus diarrhea in a Hutterite colony: epidemiological observations and typing of the causative organism.

Journal of clinical microbiology ·Vol. 32 ·No. 3 ·1994-03-00 ·Pages 721-4

Rennie RP, Strong D, Taylor DE, Salama SM, Davidson C, Tabor H

Abstract

Following a case of Campylobacter fetus sepsis and meningitis in a 4-month-old female member of a Hutterite colony, an epidemiological investigation revealed at least 18 cases of diarrhea in other members of the colony. C. fetus was isolated from 7 of 15 fecal samples submitted from affected persons. A case control study suggested that persons who worked in the abattoir were 2.03 times more likely to have had diarrhea, but none of the risk factors studied were significant. The epicurve of the outbreak was inconclusive as to the likely mode of spread of C. fetus. All of the C. fetus strains isolated from the blood of the infant and from the fecal samples were the same by biochemical and antibiotic susceptibility tests. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis showed that all isolates produced identical restriction endonuclease patterns and differed from other nonepidemiologically related strains of C. fetus.

MeSH Terms
Adult Alberta/epidemiology Bacterial Typing Techniques Campylobacter Infections/epidemiology,microbiology Campylobacter fetus/classification,genetics,isolation & purification Case-Control Studies Diarrhea/epidemiology,microbiology Disease Outbreaks Drug Resistance, Microbial Epidemiologic Factors Ethnicity Female Humans Infant Male Meningitis, Bacterial/microbiology Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length Sepsis/microbiology
Authors & Affiliations
6 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Rennie R P
Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Strong D
Taylor D E
Salama S M
Davidson C
Tabor H
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Article Info
Journal
Journal of clinical microbiology
Abbr.
J Clin Microbiol
ISSN
0095-1137
DOI
10.1128/jcm.32.3.721-724.1994
Published
1994-03-00
Pages
721-4
Language
English
Region
United States
NLM ID
7505564
PMCID
PMC263114
Subset
IM
External Links
PubMed source DOI: 10.1128/jcm.32.3.721-724.1994 PMC Full Text View journal details
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