ArticleJournal of epidemiology and community health2004
An outbreak of gastroenteritis from a non-chlorinated community water supply.
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- Survival in water of Campylobacter jejuni strains isolated from the slaughterhouse.SpringerPlus · 2015Article
- Genome analysis of Campylobacter jejuni strains isolated from a waterborne outbreak.BMC genomics · 2014Article
- Binational outbreak of Guillain-Barré syndrome associated with Campylobacter jejuni infection, Mexico and USA, 2011.Epidemiology and infection · 2014Article
- The role of environmental reservoirs in human campylobacteriosis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2013Review
- Quality of piped and stored water in households with children under five years of age enrolled in the Mali site of the Global Enteric Multi-Center Study (GEMS).The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2013Article
- Comparison of PCR binary typing (P-BIT), a new approach to epidemiological subtyping of Campylobacter jejuni, with serotyping, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, and multilocus sequence typing methods.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2010Article
- Estimated Numbers of Community Cases of Illness Due to Salmonella, Campylobacter and Verotoxigenic Escherichia Coli: Pathogen-specific Community Rates.The Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale · 2006Article
- Survival of Campylobacter jejuni in water: effect of grazing by the freshwater crustacean Daphnia carinata (Cladocera).Applied and environmental microbiology · 2005Article
- A community-based gastroenteritis outbreak after Typhoon Haiyan, Leyte, Philippines, 2013.Western Pacific surveillance and response journal : WPSARArticle
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Abstract
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objectiveTo determine the source and the extent of a community wide outbreak of gastroenteritis.
designA matched case-control study with postal questionnaires. Subtyping of campylobacter strains by pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE).
settingA rural municipality with a population of 8600 in southern Finland, August 2000. Two thirds of the population receive non-chlorinated ground water from the municipal water supply.
participantsCases were randomly selected among residents of the municipality who contacted the municipal health centre because of gastroenteritis and had illness onset between 31 July and 20 August 2000. Community controls were identified from the population registry and matched according to sex, year of birth, and postal code. MAIN
resultsFour hundred and sixty three persons contacted the municipal health centre because of gastroenteritis. Campylobacter jejuni was isolated from stool samples of 24 persons. One hundred and thirty seven cases and 388 controls were enrolled in the case-control study. In multivariate analysis, drinking unboiled water from the municipal supply was significantly associated with illness (odds ratio 11.1, 95% confidence interval 1.4 to 90.2). C jejuni was isolated from one tap water sample. The water isolate and all but one of the patient isolates were indistinguishable by PFGE.
conclusionsCombining epidemiological investigation with molecular subtyping methods provided strong evidence that water was the source of the outbreak. Non-chlorinated small ground water systems may be susceptible to waterborne outbreaks and constitute a risk to rural populations.
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