title: Outbreak of Campylobacter infection in a subartic community.
abstract: A presumably waterborne outbreak of Campylobacter jejuni/coli infection in a subarctic community is described. Drinking water supplied to residents was delivered unchlorinated during a 4-week period. No Campylobacter sp. was recovered from the water supply. Three hundred thirty individuals (15% of the 2,200 exposed) became ill. Diarrhoea, abdominal pain, fever, nausea and joint pain occurred in 81%, 30%, 29%, 43% and 21%, respectively. Nine percent reported swelling of joints, and two cases of reactive arthritis occurred. A Campylobacter sp. was isolated from 9 of 33 individuals who became ill and from 1 of 33 healthy controls. All culture-positive individuals, 46% of culture-negative ill persons and 27% of healthy controls were seropositive. All strains recovered had an identical DNA profile.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Ullevaal University Hospital, Oslo, Norway. k.k.melby@ioks.uio.no
authors.forename: K K
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Melby
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Svendby
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Eggebø
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Holmen
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Andersen
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lind
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sjøgren
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kaijser
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002169:Campylobacter Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D017000:Campylobacter coli / Q000302:isolation & purification; D016123:Campylobacter jejuni / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009664:Norway / Q000453:epidemiology; D014871:Water Microbiology; D014881:Water Supply