Outbreak of cryptosporidiosis associated with a man-made chlorinated lake-Tarrant county, Texas, 2008

Journal of Environmental Health

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 14-19

  Cantey, Paul T ^a   Kurian, Anita K ^b   Jefferson, David ^b   Moerbe, Micky M ^b   Marshall, Karen ^b   Blankenship, William R ^b   Rothbarth, Gary R ^b   Hwang, Jimee ^a   Hall, Rebecca ^a   Yoder, Jonathan ^a   Brunkard, Joan ^a   Johnston, Stephanie ^a   Xiao, Lihua ^a   Hill, Vincent R ^a   Sarisky, John ^a   Zarate Bermudez, Max A ^a   Otto, Charles ^a   Hlavsa, Michele C ^a  

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

^b Tarrant County Public Health ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE INCIDENCE; HEALTH RISK; LAKE WATER; PUBLIC HEALTH;

TARRANT COUNTY; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DIARRHEA; DRINKING; EPIDEMIC; FECES; FEMALE; HALOGENATION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LAKE; MALE; NEWBORN; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DIARRHEA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRINKING; FECES; FEMALE; HALOGENATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LAKES; MALE; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; TEXAS;

EID: 84872016705     PISSN: 00220892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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