First recognized community outbreak of haemorrhagic colitis due to verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli O 157.H7 in the UK

G. M. Morgan; C. Newman; S. R. Palmer; J. B. Allen; W. Shepherd; Anita M. Rampling; R. E. Warren; R. J. Gross; S. M. Scotland; H. R. Smith

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First recognized community outbreak of haemorrhagic colitis due to verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli O 157.H7 in the UK

G. M. Morgan, C. Newman, S. R. Palmer, J. B. Allen, W. Shepherd, Anita M. Rampling, R. E. Warren, R. J. Gross, S. M. Scotland, H. R. Smith

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The first recognized outbreak of haemorrhagic colitis due to Escherichia coli O 157. H7 in the United Kingdom affected at least 24 persons living in East Anglia over a 2-week period. Theillnesses were characterized by severe abdominal pain and bloody diarrhoea of short duration. Eleven patients were admitted to hospital and there was one death. Patients were mainly adult women who had not eaten out of the home in the 2 weeks before onset. Unlike previously reported outbreaks hamburgers were not the vehicle of infection, and a case-control study suggested that handling vegetables, and particularly potatoes, was the important risk factor.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	83-91
Number of pages	9
Journal	Epidemiology and Infection
Volume	101
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268800029241
Publication status	Published - Aug 1988

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First recognized community outbreak of haemorrhagic colitis due to verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli O 157.H7 in the UK

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