The elderly and waterborne Cryptosporidium infection: Gastroenteritis hospitalizations before and during the 1993 Milwaukee outbreak

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 418-425

  Naumova, Elena N ^a   Egorov, Andrey I ^a   Morris, Robert D ^a   Griffiths, Jeffrey K ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

AGED; ARTICLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; GASTROENTERITIS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; TURBIDITY; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; GASTROENTERITIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WISCONSIN;

EID: 0038023103     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0904.020260     Document Type: Article

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