Food-borne outbreak of group G streptococcal sore throat in an Israeli military base
Food-borne outbreak of group G streptococcal sore throat in an Israeli military base
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以色列军事基地爆发食源性 G 族链球菌喉咙痛
DOI：
10.1017/s0950268800067716
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发表时间：
1987
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
S. Bergner
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文献类型：
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作者：
Dani Cohen;M. Ferne;T. Rouach;S. Bergner
摘要1983年5月，以色列军营发生了一起由兰斯菲尔德G组β溶血性链球菌引起的食源性咽喉痛暴发，涉及50人。所有可供临床检查的患者均有咽痛和吞咽困难。46%的患者出现渗出性扁桃体炎，81%的患者体温在37.5℃以上。袭击的模式在基地上空是一致的，5月5日夜间和早晨有37人患病。37例患者的咽部培养中有32例(84%)培养出G群β溶血性链球菌。29名接触者中有8人G组β-溶血性链球菌阳性，28名食品从业人员中有6人培养阳性。从一份食物样本中也分离出了这种细菌。流行病学和实验室调查表明，一名食品加工人员--G组链球菌的康复携带者--可能是感染源。讨论了关于非A组链球菌引起流行的可能性的假设。
SUMMARY A food-borne outbreak of sore throat caused by Lancefield group G β-haemolytic streptococci and involving 50 persons occurred in May 1983 in an Israeli military camp. All of the patients available for clinical examination had sore throat and difficulty in swallowing. Exudative tonsillitis occurred in 46% of the patients and the body temperature was above 37·5 °C in 81%. The pattern of attack was uniform over the base and 37 became ill during the night and morning of the 5 May. Thirty-two (84%) of the throat cultures taken from 37 patients grew group G β-haemolytic streptococci. Eight of 29 contacts were positive for group G β-haemolytic streptococci and 6 of the 28 foodhandlers examined had positive cultures of the same group. The organism was also isolated from one food sample. The epidemiological and laboratory investigations indicated that a food handler, a convalescent carrier of group G streptococci, might have been the source of infection. Assumptions on the potential of non-group A streptococci to cause epidemics are discussed.