Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pollari, Frank
• Nesbitt, Andrea
• Murray, Regan
• Thomas, M. Kate
• Martinón-Torres, Federico

Titel

The Incidence of Acute Gastrointestinal Illness in Canada, Foodbook Survey 2014-2015

Ist Teil von

• The Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology, 2017-01, Vol.2017 (2017), p.1-11

Ort / Verlag

Cairo, Egypt: Hindawi Publishing Corporation

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Acute gastrointestinal illness (AGI) is an important public health issue, with many pathogen sources and modes of transmission. A one-year telephone survey was conducted in Canada (2014-2015) to estimate the incidence of self-reported AGI in the previous 28 days and to describe health care seeking behaviour, using a symptom-based case definition. Excluding cases with respiratory symptoms, it is estimated that there are 0.57 self-reported AGI episodes per person-year, almost 19.5 million episodes in Canada each year. The proportion of cases seeking medical care was nearly 9%, of which 17% reported being requested to submit a sample for laboratory testing, and 49% of those requested complied and provided a sample. Results can be used to inform burden of illness and source attribution studies and indicate that AGI continues to be an important public health issue in Canada.