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Case Reports
. 1988 Aug;101(1):83-91.
doi: 10.1017/s0950268800029241.

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

G M Morgan  1 , C Newman, S R Palmer, J B Allen, W Shepherd, A M Rampling, R E Warren, R J Gross, S M Scotland, H R Smith
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Case Reports

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

G M Morgan et al. Epidemiol Infect. 1988 Aug.

Abstract

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. The illnesses 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.

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