Two geographically separated food-borne outbreaks in sweden linked by an unusual cryptosporidium parvum subtype, october 2010

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 17, Issue 46, 2012, Pages 1-8

  Gherasim, A ^a,b   Lebbad, M ^b   Insulander, M ^c   Decraene, V ^a,b   Kling, A ^b   Hjertqvist, M ^b   Wallensten, A ^b,d  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^c Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control ^*  (Sweden)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOATING; CHILD; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOOD POISONING; FOOD SAFETY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RISK; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SWEDEN; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIC; FECES; FOOD CONTROL; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR;

GLYCOPROTEIN; PROTOZOAL DNA;

CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FECES; FEMALE; FOOD PARASITOLOGY; FOODBORNE DISEASES; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; OOCYSTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWEDEN;

EID: 84870933851     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/ese.17.46.20318-en     Document Type: Article

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