giardiasis

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• Children at daycare centers are at higher risk of giardiasis due to shared play areas and potential exposure to contaminated surfaces.

• Screening cases and treating with metronidazole, as well as reinforcing proper hand washing, controlled a giardiasis outbreak in a daycare nursery in England in 1998 (Ang, 2000).

  Academic text (2008)

• A similar analysis was desired for giardiasis as a potentially emerging disease of importance in the county.

  Academic text (1997)

• All new giardiasis and cryptosporidiosis cases reported to the county health department through December 9, 2006, were also interviewed.

  Academic text (2008)

• A barrier to this investigation was the very low rate of symptomatic carriers of giardiasis and cryptosporidiosis.

  Academic text (2008)

• An additional eight cases (five giardiasis, two cryptosporidiosis, and one co-infection) were from secondary transmission.

  Academic text (2008)

• Forty-nine cases meeting the case definition were identified, of which 38 were giardiasis, nine were cryptosporidiosis, and two were co-infections.

  Academic text (2008)

• The inadequate treatment of surface water was responsible for 27 percent of cryptosporidiosis outbreaks and 40 percent of giardiasis outbreaks.

  Academic text (2002)

• Giardiasis and cryptosporidiosis both have long incubation periods (one to 12 days and three to 25 days, respectively).

  Academic text (2008)

• Giardiasis is often contracted from drinking contaminated water, leading to symptoms such as giardiasis and bloating.

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