title: Endemic Campylobacter jejuni infection in Colorado: identified risk factors.
abstract: A study of persons with laboratory-confirmed sporadic Campylobacter jejuni infection and of controls matched for age and sex in Colorado in the summer of 1981 yielded odds ratio estimates significantly greater than 1 for the following risk factors: drinking raw water (10.74), drinking raw milk (6.93), eating undercooked chicken (2.77), and living in a household with a cat (3.21).
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic; D002169:Campylobacter Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D002168:Campylobacter fetus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002415:Cats; D002645:Chickens; D003120:Colorado; D003296:Cooking; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000453:epidemiology; D004751:Enteritis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008892:Milk / Q000009:adverse effects*; D012306:Risk; D014881:Water Supply