Giardiasis summary report 2018 : National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, United States

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• Alternative Title:
  Giardiasis NNDSS summary report for 2018
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infections (U.S.). Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases. Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch.
• Description:
  Giardiasis is an illness caused by the protozoan parasite Giardia duodenalis (formerly called G. lamblia or G. intestinalis), which causes gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea, abdominal cramps, bloating, weight loss, or malabsorption (1, 2). Each year in the United States, it is estimated that Giardia causes more than 1.1 million illnesses (3).
  
  Giardiasis is a nationally notifiable disease; the first full year of reporting was 1993. National data are collected through passive surveillance. Healthcare providers and laboratories that diagnose confirmed giardiasis cases report to the local or state health departments. State and territorial health departments, the District of Columbia (DC), and the New York City health departments, in turn, voluntarily notify CDC of cases via the National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System (NNDSS). The number of health departments submitting can vary from year to year depending on which states have designated giardiasis as reportable in their jurisdictions.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Giardia Lamblia Giardiasis Publc Health Surveillance
• Document Type:
  Webpage
• Name as Subject:
  National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (U.S.)‏ ;
• Genre:
  Annual Reports
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:6739e749382eb44874000b6eb0391f5fc9326df2086df2cd96156b9ed2bf5472
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/112735/cdc_112735_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.68 MB ]