Challenges of Investigating Community Outbreaks of Cyclosporiasis, British Columbia, Canada

Investigations of community outbreaks of cyclosporiasis are challenged by case-patients’ poor recall of exposure resulting from lags in detection and the stealthy nature of food vehicles. We combined multiple techniques, including early consultation with food regulators, traceback of suspected items...

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Autores principales: Shah, Lena, MacDougall, Laura, Ellis, Andrea, Ong, Corinne, Shyng, Sion, LeBlanc, Linda
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Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2815965/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19751593
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1508.081585
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author Shah, Lena
MacDougall, Laura
Ellis, Andrea
Ong, Corinne
Shyng, Sion
LeBlanc, Linda
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description Investigations of community outbreaks of cyclosporiasis are challenged by case-patients’ poor recall of exposure resulting from lags in detection and the stealthy nature of food vehicles. We combined multiple techniques, including early consultation with food regulators, traceback of suspected items, and grocery store loyalty card records, to identify a single vehicle for a cyclosporiasis outbreak in British Columbia, Canada, in 2007.
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spelling pubmed-28159652010-02-23 Challenges of Investigating Community Outbreaks of Cyclosporiasis, British Columbia, Canada Shah, Lena MacDougall, Laura Ellis, Andrea Ong, Corinne Shyng, Sion LeBlanc, Linda Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch Investigations of community outbreaks of cyclosporiasis are challenged by case-patients’ poor recall of exposure resulting from lags in detection and the stealthy nature of food vehicles. We combined multiple techniques, including early consultation with food regulators, traceback of suspected items, and grocery store loyalty card records, to identify a single vehicle for a cyclosporiasis outbreak in British Columbia, Canada, in 2007. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2009-08 /pmc/articles/PMC2815965/ /pubmed/19751593 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1508.081585 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Shah, Lena
MacDougall, Laura
Ellis, Andrea
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title_full Challenges of Investigating Community Outbreaks of Cyclosporiasis, British Columbia, Canada
title_fullStr Challenges of Investigating Community Outbreaks of Cyclosporiasis, British Columbia, Canada
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title_short Challenges of Investigating Community Outbreaks of Cyclosporiasis, British Columbia, Canada
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