Waterborne outbreak of giardiasis in Bergen, Norway
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Giardiasis in Bergen. Outbreak and clinical consequences
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BACKGROUND A surprisingly low number of children became ill with giardiasis during the large waterborne outbreak of Giardia lamblia in Bergen, Norway during autumn 2004. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the prevalence of giardiasis among exposed children one year after an outbreak and compare faecal carriage of Giardia and abdominal symptoms among exposed versus unexposed children o...
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G LAMBLIA is recognized as an important cause of acute illness in human beings. Community-wide waterborne outbreaks of giardiasis . have been documented with increasing frequency,' ' and backpackers have become ill after drinking water from mountain streams. 6 ' 7 Giardiasis has also occurred among travelers to foreign countries, although the methods of transmission in these situations are not ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Weekly releases (1997–2007)
سال: 2004
ISSN: 9999-1233
DOI: 10.2807/esw.08.46.02583-en