Waterborne outbreak of campylobacter enteritis after outdoors infantry drill in Utti, Finland

1 August 1989

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Epidemiology and Infection

Vol. 103 (1) , 133-141
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0950268800030430

Abstract

SUMMARY: Diarrhoea, abdominal pain, malaise and fever affected 75 of the 88 conscript soldiers in Utti, Finland after an outdoors infantry drill.Campylobacter jejuni, heat-stable serotype 3/43/59. was isolated from 37 out of 63 men investigated. A clear serological response was evident in the risk group and negligible in the control group. The entire population at risk was interviewed.

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