An outbreak of cryptosporidiosis in a hospital day-care centre
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Outbreak of cryptosporidiosis in a child day-care centre in Gipuzkoa, Spain, October to December 2011.
From October to December 2011, an outbreak of 26 cases of cryptosporidiosis occurred in a day-care centre in Gipuzkoa, Spain. The infection spread from person to person and affected 24 children under two years of age (attack rate: 38%) and two caregivers. Cryptosporidium oocysts were observed in 10 of 15 samples. During 2010, only four cases of cryptosporidium were detected in Gipuzkoa, and 27 ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Epidemiology and Infection
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0950-2688,1469-4409
DOI: 10.1017/s0950268800054297