Epidemia de Salmonellosis producida por ingestión de alimentos
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Giraldo C., Luis E.
Gooding, Enrique
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EspañolPublication date
1962-01-07
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En junio de 1962 se presentó un brote de gastroenteritis, en el Hospital Neuropsiquiátrico de Mujeres, Bogotá, D. E., que produjo aproximadamente 79 casos de la enfermedad. La tasa de ataque fue de 52,7% entre las 150 personas estudiadas, la mayoría de ellas empleadas de la institución. El germen causal fue una salmonella paratyphi B, que se aisló en quince de ellas. El estudio epidemiológico sugirió la probabilidad de que el alimento responsable de la diseminación fue una ensalada de verduras, la cual fue ingerida en e! 64% de las personas que presentaron síntomas. No se pudo aislar el germen causal en las manipuladoras de los alimentos, que no presentaron síntomas de la enfermedad.
During June 1962 an outbreak of gastroenteritis occurred at the Neuropsychiatric Hospital for Women, Bogotá, D. E. (Hospital Neuropsiquátrico de Mujeres) and caused approximately 79 cases of this disease. The percentage rate attacked amounted to 52,7 % of the 150 persons examined; of which the great majority were employed in the institution. The causing agent was Salmonella Paratyphi B, which was isolated in 15 of the patients The epidemiologic findings suggested that the food responsible for its dissemination was a vegetable salad consumed by 64% of the persons who manifested symptoms.The causing agent could not be isolated in the food handlers since these did not present symptoms of the disease.
During June 1962 an outbreak of gastroenteritis occurred at the Neuropsychiatric Hospital for Women, Bogotá, D. E. (Hospital Neuropsiquátrico de Mujeres) and caused approximately 79 cases of this disease. The percentage rate attacked amounted to 52,7 % of the 150 persons examined; of which the great majority were employed in the institution. The causing agent was Salmonella Paratyphi B, which was isolated in 15 of the patients The epidemiologic findings suggested that the food responsible for its dissemination was a vegetable salad consumed by 64% of the persons who manifested symptoms.The causing agent could not be isolated in the food handlers since these did not present symptoms of the disease.