Contact with beach sand among beachgoers and risk of illness

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 164-172

  Heaney, Christopher D ^a   Sams, Elizabeth ^b   Wing, Steve ^b   Marshall, Steve ^b   Brenner, Kristen ^b   Dufour, Alfred P ^b   Wade, Timothy J ^b  

^a IL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bathing beaches; Diarrhea; Disease transmission, infectious; Environmental pollution; Fomites; Fresh water; Oceans and seas; Sewage

Indexed keywords

BEACH; BIOINDICATOR; DIARRHEAL DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FECES; HEALTH RISK; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MARINE POLLUTION; SAND; SEWAGE; SYMPTOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; EVALUATION; FECES MICROFLORA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SERVICE; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT SELECTION; POLLUTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESEARCH SUBJECT; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASHORE; SEWAGE; SOCIAL MEDICINE; WATER QUALITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCEANS AND SEAS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67651094132     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwp152     Document Type: Article

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