• DOI:10.1016/0140-6736(90)92337-H
Corpus ID: 23087850

Outbreak of diarrhoea due to Escherichia coli 0111:B4 in schoolchildren and adults: association of Vi antigen-like reactivity

@article{Viljanen1990OutbreakOD,
  title={Outbreak of diarrhoea due to Escherichia coli 0111:B4 in schoolchildren and adults: association of Vi antigen-like reactivity},
  author={M. Viljanen and T. Peltola and M. Kuistila and P. Huovinen and H. Järvinen},
  journal={The Lancet},
  year={1990},
  volume={336},
  pages={831-834}
}

• M. Viljanen, T. Peltola, +2 authors H. Järvinen
• Published 1990
• Biology, Medicine
• The Lancet

During six days in November, 1987, 611 pupils (age range 7-19 years) and 39 adults (23-57) at a school complex in southern Finland had diarrhoea due to Escherichia coli O111:B4. Diarrhoea developed in 137 other household members during the two weeks after the school outbreak. The source of the organism remains unknown. The outbreak strains, when incubated at 22 degrees C or exposed to ampicillin, lost the lipopolysaccharide O antigen and began to react with antisera against Salmonella typhi Vi… Expand

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