Nancy T. Hargrett

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated two outbreaks of an unusual gastrointestinal illness that affected at least 47 people in Oregon and Michigan in February through March and May through June 1982, which was characterized by severe crampy abdominal pain, initially watery diarrhea followed by grossly bloody diarrhea, and little or no fever.

TL;DR: It is suggested that trivalent antitoxin has a beneficial effect on survival and shortens the course of patients with type A botulism.

TL;DR: The relatively large proportion of multiresistant Salmonella among isolates from persons with these risk factors suggests that to cause disease, resistant organisms are more dependent than are sensitive organisms on host characteristics.

TL;DR: In September 1983, three clusters of gastrointestinal illness with similar symptoms affected 45 persons in Washington, D.C., after office parties, and cheese-associated cases were identified over an eight-week period in Illinois, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Colorado.

TL;DR: This outbreak implicated an unusual vehicle for botulinal toxin that was initially not suspected and demonstrates the importance of considering all theoretically possible food items as potential vehicles for toxin until epidemiologic and laboratory data have been collected and analyzed.