[Methods for the elucidation of epidemics of salmonella infections limited to the alimentary tract].
The authors demonstrate results and experience to the methodology of epidemic focus investigations in identification of food causing infections, basing on the evaluation of four Salmonella outbreaks in the district of Gera in 1986 and 1987. The main tasks are: careful anamnestic registration of food and dishes consumed by affected people and persons in the community during the relevant incubation period with help of a check-list, case findings in several stages, continuous documentation of the results in the check-list, analytic evaluation of this list, operative control measures in food-producing factories and super-markets suspected to be a source of infection, microbiologic examinations in men, food, and environment.
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