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. 1994 Mar;32(3):721–724. doi: 10.1128/jcm.32.3.721-724.1994

Campylobacter fetus diarrhea in a Hutterite colony: epidemiological observations and typing of the causative organism.

R P Rennie 1, D Strong 1, D E Taylor 1, S M Salama 1, C Davidson 1, H Tabor 1
PMCID: PMC263114  PMID: 7910829

Abstract

Following a case of Campylobacter fetus sepsis and meningitis in a 4-month-old female member of a Hutterite colony, an epidemiological investigation revealed at least 18 cases of diarrhea in other members of the colony. C. fetus was isolated from 7 of 15 fecal samples submitted from affected persons. A case control study suggested that persons who worked in the abattoir were 2.03 times more likely to have had diarrhea, but none of the risk factors studied were significant. The epicurve of the outbreak was inconclusive as to the likely mode of spread of C. fetus. All of the C. fetus strains isolated from the blood of the infant and from the fecal samples were the same by biochemical and antibiotic susceptibility tests. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis showed that all isolates produced identical restriction endonuclease patterns and differed from other nonepidemiologically related strains of C. fetus.

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