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Long-lasting Campylobacter jejuni contamination of milk associated with gastrointestinal illness in a farming family.

Schildt M, Savolainen S, Hänninen ML

Department of Food and Environment Hygiene, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki University, Finland.

This report describes an outbreak of gastroenteritis of 5 months' duration in a farming family, associated with the consumption of unpasteurized cows' milk, where Campylobacter jejuni was implicated. A total of six individuals in the family acquired the illness, and two had several episodes of diarrhoea within the 5-month period. Identical PFGE genotypes of C. jejuni were isolated from human and bovine faeces, and bulk tank milk samples. Incompletely sealed rubber liners fitted to a milking machine shortly before the outbreak started was the probable reason, allowing faecal material to contaminate the milk over the period concerned.

Published 21 February 2006 in Epidemiol Infect, 134(2): 401-5.
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