MICROBIOLOGICAL, EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AND ECOLOGICAL FACTORS IN A STREPTOCOCCAL PHARYNGITIS OUTBREAK AT A NATO MILITARY TRAINING CENTER
Abstract
An explosive outbreak of pharyngitis involving 1954 trainees at the Turkish Army Engineering Training Center, near Izmir, Turkey, between 8 and 14 May 1967, was determined to have been caused by a massive introduction of bacitracin-sensitive, beta-hemolytic streptococci into the three training battalions comprising the center, probably by means of a contaminated food item consumed on or two days before the onset of symptoms. The course of the epidemic may have been influenced by the change from spring to summer weather conditions which occurred between 5 and 9 May 1967, and by the prompt and efficacious chemotherapy administered by the Turkish medical staff.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 23, 1967
- Accession Number
- AD0661263
Entities
People
- Albert L. Johnson
- John P. Riordon
Organizations
- United States Department of the Air Force