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Is Infantile gastro-enteritis fundamentally a milk-borne infection?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

Scott Thomson
Scott Thomson
Affiliation:
The Public Health Laboratory, Cardiff
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1. One per cent of samples of farm milk were found to contain pathogenic varieties of Bacterium coli of the O groups associated with infantile gastroenteritis.

2. Unheated cows' milk is a dangerous food for babies.

3. Summer diarrhoea was probably, for the most part, milk-borne infection by special O groups of Bact. coli.

4. Thirteen per cent of chickens on farms were found to be excreting Bact. coli of the O groups associated with infantile gastro-enteritis but only a few of the strains possessed H antigens of varieties known to have an association with human disease.

5. Possible reservoirs of infection cannot be adequately searched for until a selective method is devised to aid the separation of pathogenic O groups of Bact. coli from the non-pathogenic.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , June 1956 , pp. 311 - 314
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1956

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