Recurrent outbreaks of cryptosporidiosis associated with calves among students at an educational farm programme, Minnesota, 2003

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 878-886

  Kiang, K M ^a,b   Scheftel, J M ^a   Leano, F T ^a   Taylor, C M ^a   Belle Isle, P A ^a   Cebelinski, E A ^a   Danila, R ^a   Smith, Kirk E ^a  

^a MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CARE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CLEANING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOTHING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HAND WASHING; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INTERVIEW; MANURE; MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT; NONHUMAN; RECURRENT INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SHOE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYGIENE; MALE; MINNESOTA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STUDENTS;

EID: 33745551784     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268805005649     Document Type: Article

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