Bottled beverages and typhoid fever: the Mexican epidemic of 1972-73.
A chloramphenicol resistant strain of S. typhi which caused a very large epidemic of typhoid fever in Mexico in 1972-73 survived in opened bottles of one carbonated drink with a pH of 4.6 for two weeks and in another such drink with a pH of 5.1 for six months. Bottled beverages are potential sources of large outbreaks of enteric disease, and deserve the same type of standards sand monitoring as comparable fluids such as milk.
D001628:Beverages / Q000009:adverse effects*; D002253:Carbonated Beverages / Q000009:adverse effects*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005516:Food Microbiology; D006801:Humans; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D008800:Mexico; D014435:Typhoid Fever / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*