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A Retrospective Cohort Study of an Outbreak of Cryptosporidiosis among Veterinary Students
An outbreak of gastrointestinal illness occurred among a cohort of 56 veterinary technology and 100 veterinary science students at Massey University over an eight-week period in 2013. This coincided with calving in New Zealand’s seasonal dairy farming system and a time when calves with diarrhoea are...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5606607/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29056688 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vetsci4020029 |
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author | Benschop, Jackie Booker, Christina M. Shadbolt, Tui Weston, Jenny F. |
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description | An outbreak of gastrointestinal illness occurred among a cohort of 56 veterinary technology and 100 veterinary science students at Massey University over an eight-week period in 2013. This coincided with calving in New Zealand’s seasonal dairy farming system and a time when calves with diarrhoea are commonly seen by veterinarians. Laboratory and epidemiological investigations were instigated by MidCentral Public Health Service (MCPHS) in conjunction with the Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences (IVABS) at Massey University. Eighty students responded to a questionnaire of which 19 met the case definition, a 24% attack rate. Faecal specimens from seven students contained Cryptosporidium oocysts and Cryptosporidium parvum IIa A18G3R1 was identified from one of the specimens. The inferred median incubation period was five days (range 1–12 days). All of the cases were self-limiting, characterized by diarrhoea, abdominal cramps, and in some cases vomiting, headache, and fever. Having contact with calves with diarrhoea was significantly associated with increased adjusted odds of being a case (OR 10.61, 95% CI 1.87–108.29 for one week of contact; OR 55.05, 95% CI 3.80–1931.18 for two weeks of contact). Outbreaks of cryptosporidiosis had occurred previously among veterinary students at Massey University, but the extremely high infectivity of C. parvum resulted in student illness despite enhanced hygiene precautions. |
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spelling | pubmed-56066072017-10-18 A Retrospective Cohort Study of an Outbreak of Cryptosporidiosis among Veterinary Students Benschop, Jackie Booker, Christina M. Shadbolt, Tui Weston, Jenny F. Vet Sci Article An outbreak of gastrointestinal illness occurred among a cohort of 56 veterinary technology and 100 veterinary science students at Massey University over an eight-week period in 2013. This coincided with calving in New Zealand’s seasonal dairy farming system and a time when calves with diarrhoea are commonly seen by veterinarians. Laboratory and epidemiological investigations were instigated by MidCentral Public Health Service (MCPHS) in conjunction with the Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences (IVABS) at Massey University. Eighty students responded to a questionnaire of which 19 met the case definition, a 24% attack rate. Faecal specimens from seven students contained Cryptosporidium oocysts and Cryptosporidium parvum IIa A18G3R1 was identified from one of the specimens. The inferred median incubation period was five days (range 1–12 days). All of the cases were self-limiting, characterized by diarrhoea, abdominal cramps, and in some cases vomiting, headache, and fever. Having contact with calves with diarrhoea was significantly associated with increased adjusted odds of being a case (OR 10.61, 95% CI 1.87–108.29 for one week of contact; OR 55.05, 95% CI 3.80–1931.18 for two weeks of contact). Outbreaks of cryptosporidiosis had occurred previously among veterinary students at Massey University, but the extremely high infectivity of C. parvum resulted in student illness despite enhanced hygiene precautions. MDPI 2017-05-24 /pmc/articles/PMC5606607/ /pubmed/29056688 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vetsci4020029 Text en © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Benschop, Jackie Booker, Christina M. Shadbolt, Tui Weston, Jenny F. A Retrospective Cohort Study of an Outbreak of Cryptosporidiosis among Veterinary Students |
title | A Retrospective Cohort Study of an Outbreak of Cryptosporidiosis among Veterinary Students |
title_full | A Retrospective Cohort Study of an Outbreak of Cryptosporidiosis among Veterinary Students |
title_fullStr | A Retrospective Cohort Study of an Outbreak of Cryptosporidiosis among Veterinary Students |
title_full_unstemmed | A Retrospective Cohort Study of an Outbreak of Cryptosporidiosis among Veterinary Students |
title_short | A Retrospective Cohort Study of an Outbreak of Cryptosporidiosis among Veterinary Students |
title_sort | retrospective cohort study of an outbreak of cryptosporidiosis among veterinary students |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5606607/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29056688 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vetsci4020029 |
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