A milk-borne outbreak of serious infection due toStreptococcus zooepidemicus(Lancefield Group C)
- 1 August 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Epidemiology and Infection
- Vol. 101 (1) , 43-51
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0950268800029204
Abstract
SUMMARY: An outbreak of infection due toStreptococcus zooepidemicus(Lancefield Group C) is described. At least 11 patients were affected and the infection was responsible for, or contributed to, the deaths of seven of these. Clinical features included septicaemia, meningitis and endocarditis. The source of infection was unpasteurized milk from a dairy herd with mild intermittent mastitis.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
- DNA Fingerprinting of Streptococcus zooepidemicus (Lancefield Group C) as an Aid to Epidemiological StudyThe Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1987
- Human infection withStreptococcus zooepidemicus(Lancefield group C): three case reportsEpidemiology and Infection, 1987
- Characterization ofStreptococcus zooepidemicus(Lancefield group C) from human and selected animal infectionsEpidemiology and Infection, 1987
- Pasteurisation and the control of milkborne infection in Britain.BMJ, 1985
- The case for compulsory pasteurisation.BMJ, 1985
- A study of 280 cases of neonatal meningitis in The NetherlandsJournal of Infection, 1984
- NEPHRITIS CAUSED BY STREPTOCOCCUS ZOOEPIDEMICUS (LANCEFIELD GROUP C)The Lancet, 1983
- Group C Streptococcal Meningitis in an AdultArchives of internal medicine (1960), 1980
- Serious infection caused by group C streptococci.Journal of Clinical Pathology, 1980
- A new nephritogenic streptococcusEpidemiology and Infection, 1969