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Screening policies for daycare attendees: lessons learned from an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 in a daycare in Waterloo, Ontario.
OBJECTIVES Control measures for enteric outbreaks in child care settings frequently include screening by stool cultures from symptomatic children only. We present evidence from an investigation of Escherichia coli (E. coli) O157:H7 in a daycare in Waterloo, Ontario to support implementation of a mandatory screening policy for all children during an outbreak. METHODS In addition to routine out...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Public Health
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0008-4263,1920-7476
DOI: 10.1007/bf03403755