An outbreak of food-poisoning caused by Campylobacter jejuni in a middle school
1984
Muramatsu, K. (Nagano-ken. Research Inst. for Health and Pollution (Japan)) | Wada, M. | Kobayashi, M.
An outbreak of food-poisoning caused by Campylobacter jejuni occured in Omachi city, Nagano prefecture during November and December, 1981. The symptoms common to the 462 patients were abdominal pain (87.2%), diarrhoea (53.9%), fever (42.6%), nausea (28.6%), headache (9.5%) and vomiting (5.6%). Positive rate of isolation of Campylobacter jejuni from the stools of patients in acute stage and convalescent stage was 36.7%, Sera from 6 patients showed elevated agglutinin liters, ranging from 1 : 40 to 1 : 160, against the formalinized antigens of the isolates. Contamination of a lunch served in the school in November 25th was presumed to be the cause of the outbreak. This was the first report on the outbreak of food-poisoning by this microorganism in Nagano prefecture.
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