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[Source: Eurosurveillance, full text: (LINK). Abstract, edited.]
Eurosurveillance, Volume 17, Issue 5, 02 February 2012
Rapid communications
Outbreak of cryptosporidiosis in a child day-care centre in Gipuzkoa, Spain, October to December 2011
J Artieda (
)<SUP>1</SUP>, M Basterrechea<SUP>1</SUP>, L Arriola<SUP>1</SUP>, M Yag?e<SUP>1</SUP><SUP>,2</SUP>, E Albisua<SUP>1</SUP>, N Arostegui<SUP>3</SUP>, U Astigarraga<SUP>3</SUP>, R Botello<SUP>3</SUP>, J M Manterola<SUP>4</SUP>
Citation style for this article: Artieda J, Basterrechea M, Arriola L, Yag?e M, Albisua E, Arostegui N, Astigarraga U, Botello R, Manterola JM. Outbreak of cryptosporidiosis in a child day-care centre in Gipuzkoa, Spain, October to December 2011. Euro Surveill. 2012;17(5)
ii=20070. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20070
Date of submission: 24 January 2012 <HR>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 overall in Spain.
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 17, Issue 5, 02 February 2012
Rapid communications
Outbreak of cryptosporidiosis in a child day-care centre in Gipuzkoa, Spain, October to December 2011
J Artieda (
- Public Health Division of the Basque Government, Gipuzkoa, Spain
- Unit of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Cruces Hospital, Barakaldo, Spain
- Health Centre of Osakidetza (Basque Health Service), Eibar, Gipuzkoa, Spain
- Microbiology Department, Mendaro Hospital, Mendaro, Spain
Citation style for this article: Artieda J, Basterrechea M, Arriola L, Yag?e M, Albisua E, Arostegui N, Astigarraga U, Botello R, Manterola JM. Outbreak of cryptosporidiosis in a child day-care centre in Gipuzkoa, Spain, October to December 2011. Euro Surveill. 2012;17(5)
ii=20070. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20070 Date of submission: 24 January 2012 <HR>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 overall in Spain.