Campylobacter sepsis associated with "nutritional therapy"--California

government report · 1981

type:government report

year:1981

citation:Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Campylobacter sepsis associated with "nutritional therapy"--California. MMWR. 1981;30(24):294-295. PMID: 6789105.

LINK

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6789105/

SUMMARY

CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report documenting Campylobacter sepsis cases linked to raw-liver nutritional therapy in California; PMID located and verified directly on PubMed. The CDC report establishes the outbreak. The National Cancer Institute's separate PDQ summary records that FDA later banned injectable crude liver extract in 1989 after Campylobacter contamination.

NOTES

The CDC’s contemporaneous 1981 outbreak report on Campylobacter sepsis linked to raw-liver nutritional therapy. NCI separately documents the later FDA ban of the contaminated injectable component.