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An outbreak of cryptosporidiosis associated with a resort swimming pool

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

W. R. MacKenzie ,
J. J. Kazmierczak  and
J. P. Davis
W. R. MacKenzie
Affiliation:
CDC, EPO, DFE, MS C-08, 1600 Clifton Road, NE Atlanta, GA 30333
J. J. Kazmierczak
Affiliation:
Wisconsin Division of Health, Bureau of Public Health, 1400 East Washington Ave., Room 96, Madison, WI 53703
J. P. Davis*
Affiliation:
Wisconsin Division of Health, Bureau of Public Health, 1400 East Washington Ave., Room 96, Madison, WI 53703
*
* Author for correspondence.
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An outbreak of cyptosporidiosis occurred in late April 1993 among resort hotel guests which was temporally associated with, but geographically distant from, a massive waterborne outbreak of cryptosporidiosis in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that occurred in late March and early April of 1993. A case-control study was performed among groups with members who reported illness and among a systematic sample of groups who stayed at the resort hotel during the risk period. Of 120 persons interviewed, 51 (43%) met the case definition. Swimming in the resort hotel's pool was significantly associated with case status (OR = 9·8; 95% Cl 3·4, 29·7), as was consumption of ice from the hotel's ice machines (OR = 2·3; 95% Cl 1·01, 5·2). When analysis was restricted only to laboratory-confirmed cases and controls, swimming pool use was the only risk factor significantly associated with illness (OR=13·0; 95%C1 2·6, 88·7). Following waterborne outbreaks of cryptosporidiosis associated with water supplies, swimming pools should be considered as possible ongoing sources for transmission regionally.

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Research Article
Information
Epidemiology & Infection , Volume 115 , Issue 3 , December 1995 , pp. 545 - 553
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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