1. Bottled Beverages and Typhoid Fever: The Mexican Epidemic of 1972-73.
- Author
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Gonzal-Cortes, Abel, Gangarosa, Eugene J., Parrilla, Cristina, Martin, William T., Espinosa-Avala, Anna Maria, Ruiz, Lindia, Bessudo, David, and Hernandez-Arreortua, Humberto
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EPIDEMICS ,TYPHOID fever ,BOTTLES ,BEVERAGES ,CHLORAMPHENICOL ,INTESTINAL infections ,MILK ,MEXICANS - Abstract
Abstract: A chloramphenicol resistant strain of S. typhi which caused it very large epidemic of typhoid fever in Mexico in 1972-73 survived in opened bottles of one carbonated drink with a pH of 4.6 for two weeks and in another such drink with a pH of 5.1 for six months. Bottled beverages are potential sources of large outbreaks of enteric disease, and deserve the same type of standards and monitoring its comparable fluids such as milk. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1982
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