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An Outbreak of Acute Enteritis Due to Campylobacter fetus Subspecies jejuni at a Nursery School in Tokyo
Author(s) -
Itoh Takeshi,
Saito Kahiko,
Maruyama Tsutom,
Sakai Senzo,
Ohashi Makoto,
Oka Aiko
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
microbiology and immunology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.664
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1348-0421
pISSN - 0385-5600
DOI - 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1980.tb02841.x
Subject(s) - outbreak , enteritis , campylobacter fetus , diarrhea , biology , abdominal pain , campylobacter jejuni , vomiting , veterinary medicine , fetus , medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , virology , pregnancy , bacteria , genetics
An outbreak of acute enteritis due to Campylobacter fetus subspecies jejuni involving a total of 35 out of 74 children occurred at a nursery school in Tokyo in January 1979 and lasted for 7 days. It was the first case of a community outbreak of the disease to be recognized in Japan. The major symptoms observed in the patients consisted of diarrhea (88%), fever (82%), abdominal pain (39%), and vomiting (6.1%). The rate of isolation of the organism from the patients was 39%. Sera of four patients showed elevated agglutinin titers against the organism ranging from 1 : 80 to 1 : 320. Although it is suggested that the outbreak was caused by a communal lunch or between‐meal snacks prepared by and provided at the nursery school, the incriminated food, source and route of contamination could not be pinpointed.