Infectious diarrhea in tourists staying in a resort hotel

Authors
Hardie, RM Wall, PG Gott, P Bardhan, M Bartlett, CLR
Citation
Rm. Hardie et al., Infectious diarrhea in tourists staying in a resort hotel, EM INFECT D, 5(1), 1999, pp. 168-171
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Clinical Immunolgy & Infectious Disease
Journal title
EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
ISSN journal
10806040 → ACNP
Volume
5
Issue
1
Year of publication
1999
Pages
168 - 171
Database
ISI
SICI code
1080-6040(199901/02)5:1<168:IDITSI>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
An outbreak of infectious diarrhea with 70 laboratory-confirmed cases (58 w ith Giardia lamblia) and 107 probable cases occurred in U.K. tourists who s tayed in a hotel in Greece. After a cluster of six cases in persons who had stayed at the hotel was reported, the Communicable Disease Surveillance Ce ntre began active case ascertainment. This outbreak illustrates the value o f an approach to surveillance that integrates routine surveillance data wit h active case ascertainment.