Milk-Borne Infections in Great Britain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11176289 |
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| Authors | W Savage, William G Savage (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1949 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 45-55 |
| Publication date | 1949-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0143-005X • E-ISSN: 1470-2738 |
| Publisher | BMJ (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1136/jech.3.2.45 |
| PMID | 18137023 |
| OpenAlex | W2102251629 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 31 |
that an outbreak of typhoid fever was spread by milk. Since that date the literature has been strewn with reports on milk-spread outbreaks of infectious disease, but even so numerous outbreaks remain unrecorded. The importance of milk as a vehicle for the trans-mission of disease is due to three factors. The cow may suffer from infections which are common also to man; milk is a suitable medium for the multiplica-tion of most pathogenic organisms and ingestion is an important factor in infection; milk is much handled between cow and consumer, so facilitating its infection. There are three sources of human milk-spread infections. (1) Bovine infection of the cow may
Bacteria · Biology · Brucellosis · Disease · Dysentery · Food poisoning · Infectious disease (medical specialty) · Outbreak · Salmonella · Tuberculosis · Typhoid fever · Veterinary medicine · Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology · Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment · Immunology · Medicine · T-cell and Retrovirus Studies · Virology
| Highly cited | No |
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