Title

The Broad Street Pump Revisited: Dairy Farms And An Ongoing Outbreak Of Inflammatory Bowel Disease In Forest, Virginia

Keywords

aerosolization; cluster; fecal-oral waterborne transmission; inflammatory bowel disease; outbreak; paratuberculosis

Abstract

We report an ongoing outbreak of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease in Forest, Virginia involving 15 unrelated children and teenagers who resided in close proximity to dairy farms. Some of our cases demonstrated serologic evidence of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis infection, suggesting its potential role as an etiologic agent. © 2011 Pierce et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

Publication Date

1-1-2011

Publication Title

Gut Pathogens

Volume

3

Issue

1

Number of Pages

-

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1186/1757-4749-3-20

Socpus ID

84860683838 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84860683838

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