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Alternative Title:
Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:
Ho, Alice Y. ; Lopez, Adriana S. ; Eberhart, Michael G. ; Levenson, Robert ; Finkel, Bernard S. ; ... More +
Ho, Alice Y. ; Lopez, Adriana S. ; Eberhart, Michael G. ; Levenson, Robert ; Finkel, Bernard S. ; da Silva, Alexandre J. ; Roberts, Jacquelin M. ; Orlandi, Palmer A. ; Johnson, Caroline C. ; Herwaldt, Barbara L. Less -
Description:
An outbreak of cyclosporiasis occurred in attendees of a wedding reception held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 10, 2000. In a retrospective cohort study, 54 (68.4%) of the 79 interviewed guests and members of the wedding party met the case definition. The wedding cake, which had a cream filling that included raspberries, was the food item most strongly associated with illness (multivariate relative risk, 5.9; 95% confidence interval, 3.6 to 10.5). Leftover cake was positive for Cyclospora DNA by polymerase chain reaction analyses. Sequencing of the amplified fragments confirmed that the organism was Cyclospora cayetanensis. The year 2000 was the fifth year since 1995 that outbreaks of cyclosporiasis definitely or probably associated with Guatemalan raspberries have occurred in the spring in North America. Additionally, this is the second documented U.S. outbreak, and the first associated with raspberries, for which Cyclospora has been detected in the epidemiologically implicated food item.
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Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 And Over
Animals
Cluster Analysis
Commerce
Cyclospora
Cyclosporiasis
Disease Outbreaks
DNA, Protozoan
Female
Foodborne Diseases
Food Handling
Food Parasitology
Fruit
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Polymerase Chain Reaction

Source:
Emerg Infect Dis. 8(8):783-788.
Document Type:
Journal Article
Place as Subject:
Guatemala ; Philadelphia, PA
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Collection(s):
Emerging Infectious Diseases
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