GROUP-R STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION AMONGST PIG MEAT HANDLERS - REVIEW

被引:17
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CHATTOPADHYAY, B [1 ]
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[1] WHIPPS CROSS HOSP,DEPT MICROBIOL,LONDON,ENGLAND
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10.1016/S0033-3506(79)80117-1
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R1 [预防医学、卫生学];
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1004 ; 120402 ;
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Between 1968 and 1975 15 cases of meningitis and or septicaemia due to group R streptococcus were documented amongst pig meat handlers in Holland and Denmark of which two were fatal. Since 1976, five simïlar cases have been recorded in England in the same occupational group. All were male except two, and a majority of them developed hearing loss and giddiness or unsteadiness as permanent sequelae. © 1979 The Society of Community Medicine.
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