Clinico-epidemiologic characteristics of group illness caused by Bac. cereus food poisoning
Bykova, V.A.; Martynov, S.V.
Zhurnal Mikrobiologii Epidemiologii i Immunobiologii 12: 28-29
1977
ISSN/ISBN: 0372-9311 PMID: 414486 Document Number: 114912
The authors describe an outbreak of food poisoning caused by Bac. cereus embracing 80% of persons who catered at the same catering establishment. The poisoning occurred in the course of 15 hours after the moment of eating a sauce stored in warm place. In the majority of cases the course of the disease was mild; 77.8% of the patients displayed phenomena of enteritis, 20.2%--of entercolitis, and 2.0%--of gastroenterocolitis. All the patients recovered without any treatment in the course of 1--2 days.