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A hospital outbreak of typhoid fever

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

W.H Bradley ,
L. Wilson Evans  and
Ian Taylor
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1. An epidemic of typhoid fever involving 135 persons in a semi-closed community of. 742 persons is described.

2. There were nineteen symptomless excreters (14·1%).

3. Among the 116 clinical cases there were seven deaths, giving a case fatality of 6.03%. If the case fatality were calculated on the total persons involved (including symptomless excreters), the figure would be 5·2%.

4. The origin of the outbreak was not discovered, but there was strong cricumstantial evidence in favour of a milk-borne infection.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 49 , Issue 2-3 , June 1951 , pp. 324 - 334
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1951

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