Septicaemia and meningitis with campylobacter fetus subspecies intestinalis.
Two cases of infection with Campylobacter fetus subspecies intestinalis are reported. In a 46-year-old farmer the development of septicaemic campylobacteriosis with acute gastroenterocolitis was favoured by malnutrition due to chronic alcoholism. After treatment with erythromycin the patient recovered completely. The second patient, a 40-year-old worker with meningitis, recovered after combined streptomycin-erytro-mycin therapy. In both patients antibodies against homologous and reference strains of Campylobycter fetus subspecies intestinalis, serotype 1 (Mitscherlich) were demonstrated in titres ranging from 1:16 to 1:64 by type the complement-fixation test.
D000328:Adult; D000822:Animal Husbandry; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000150:complications*; D002167:Campylobacter / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D002168:Campylobacter fetus / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D006801:Humans; D007422:Intestines / Q000382:microbiology; D008297:Male; D008581:Meningitis / Q000209:etiology*; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D008875:Middle Aged; D018805:Sepsis / Q000209:etiology*