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. 1984 Mar;74(3):249-50.
doi: 10.2105/ajph.74.3.249.

Endemic Campylobacter jejuni infection in Colorado: identified risk factors

R S Hopkins, R Olmsted, G R Istre

Endemic Campylobacter jejuni infection in Colorado: identified risk factors

R S Hopkins et al. Am J Public Health. 1984 Mar.

Abstract

A study of persons with laboratory-confirmed sporadic Campylobacter jejuni infection and of controls matched for age and sex in Colorado in the summer of 1981 yielded odds ratio estimates significantly greater than 1 for the following risk factors: drinking raw water (10.74), drinking raw milk (6.93), eating undercooked chicken (2.77), and living in a household with a cat (3.21).

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