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To identify the source and transmission vehicle of a dual employee and community gastroenteritis outbreak linked to a commercial bakery.

February 1, 1999Epidemiology and InfectionOpen Access

A community outbreak of food-borne small round-structured virus gastroenteritis caused by a contaminated water supply

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RBRuairı́ BrughaUniversity of Medicine and Health Sciences IVIan B. VipondUniversity of Liverpool MEM.R. EvansPublic Health Wales

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Epidemiological investigation uncovers food-borne viral gastroenteritis linked to contaminated bakery water, highlighting risks of secondary food contamination during processing.

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To identify the source and transmission vehicle of a dual employee and community gastroenteritis outbreak linked to a commercial bakery.
Conducted an epidemiological investigation involving 135 bakery employees and three community clusters across South Wales and Bristol, United Kingdom.
Analyzed the polymerase and capsid regions of viral genomes extracted from stool specimens using reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR).
Illness in bakery employees was significantly associated with drinking cold water at the plant (relative risk 3.3, 95% CI 1.6–7.0), affecting 30 of 135 (23%) workers.
Gastroenteritis in community cases was strongly associated with eating custard slices (relative risk 19.8, 95% CI 2.9–135.1) distributed by the bakery, affecting over 100 individuals.
RT-PCR identified small round-structured viruses (SRSV) belonging to genogroups 1 and 2 with diverse nucleotide sequences across employee and community stool samples, confirming secondary contamination during custard reconstitution.

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Brugha et al. (1999) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a700bc6febe604dd708d978 https://doi.org/10.1017/s0950268898001885

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Epidemiological investigation uncovers food-borne viral gastroenteritis linked to contaminated bakery water, highlighting risks of secondary food contamination during processing.

A community outbreak of food-borne small round-structured virus gastroenteritis caused by a contaminated water supply

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