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EPIDEMIOLOGY AND INFECTION
Volume 128, Issue 2, Pages 111-118Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268802006799
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Although campylobacter has been the most commonly recognized bacterial cause of gastrointestinal infection in England and Wales since 1981, there are few reported campylobacter outbreaks. Of the 2374 general outbreaks of infectious intestinal disease reported to CDSC between 1995 and 1999, for which an aetiological agent was identified, campylobacter accounted for only 50 (2%). Foodborne transmission was identified in 35 outbreaks and the majority took place in commercial catering establishments; waterborne transmission was responsible for a further four outbreaks. Isolates of Campylobacter jejuni were referred for typing from 25 outbreaks. In 13 outbreaks all isolates were the same subtype, as defined by serotype and phage type, while in the remainder more than one campylobacter subtype was involved.
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