title: [Clinical cases of food poisoning caused by NAG-vibrios].
abstract: On the basis of bacteriological and serological studies carried out during two outbreaks of food poisoning it was found that the disease was caused by NAG-vibrios of the I Heiberg group, serotypes 5 and 34 after Sakazaki. The disease was accompanied by isolation of NAG-vibrios from feces and the washings from the stomach, it was characterized by symptoms of acute gastroenteritis and enteritis of mild and moderate severity. The incubation period lasted from 3 to 30 hours. There was an increase in the agglutinin titres to homologous strains of NAG-vibrios. Of the 6 strains tested 4 proved to be enteropathogenic in intraintestinal infection of rabbits in doses of 10(5) microbial cells.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000096:biosynthesis; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D005517:Foodborne Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D005750:Gastric Juice / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D011817:Rabbits; D014586:USSR; D014733:Vibrio / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity; D014735:Vibrio Infections / Q000150:complications
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral
vernacular_title: Sluchai pishchevykh toksikoinfektsiĭ, byzbannykh NAG-vibrionami