Morgan G M, Newman C, Palmer S R, Allen J B, Shepherd W, Rampling A M, Warren R E, Gross R J, Scotland S M, Smith H R
PHLS Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, London.
Epidemiol Infect. 1988 Aug;101(1):83-91. doi: 10.1017/s0950268800029241.
The first recognized outbreak of haemorrhagic colitis due to Escherichia coli O 157.H7 in the United Kingdom affected at least 24 persons living in East Anglia over a 2-week period. The illnesses were characterized by severe abdominal pain and bloody diarrhoea of short duration. Eleven patients were admitted to hospital and there was one death. Patients were mainly adult women who had not eaten out of the home in the 2 weeks before onset. Unlike previously reported outbreaks hamburgers were not the vehicle of infection, and a case-control study suggested that handling vegetables, and particularly potatoes, was the important risk factor.
英国首次确认的由大肠杆菌O157.H7引起的出血性结肠炎疫情,在两周内影响了至少24名居住在东安格利亚的人。这些疾病的特点是严重腹痛和持续时间短的血性腹泻。11名患者住院治疗,并有1人死亡。患者主要是成年女性,她们在发病前两周内没有外出就餐。与之前报道的疫情不同,汉堡包不是感染源,一项病例对照研究表明,处理蔬菜,尤其是土豆,是重要的风险因素。