PhD thesis - University of Hertfordshire Research Archive

Year Human medicine Veterinary medicine
1972 Dekeyser applies successfully veterinary
techniques to isolate related vibrios from
the faeces of two patients with vibrionic
enteritis. The organisms are
biochemically and antigenically similar to
each other and to an isolate from one
patient‟s blood. Thirty five strains of
related vibrios subsequently isolated
from 1000 enterobacteriaceae-negative
stool samples. (Dekeyser et al., 1972)
1973 Butzler isolates related vibrios from
41/800 (5%) and 4/100 (4%) of stools
from children and adults with diarrhoea
respectively, compared with 13 (1.3%) of
1000 children without diarrhoea. (Butzler
et al., 1973)
1977 Skirrow repeats and extends Butzler‟s
work. Demonstrates 57/803 (7.1%)
patients with diarrhoea are infected with
campylobacters compared with 0/194
control patients. (Skirrow, 1977)
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