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. 1995 Dec;115(3):545–553. doi: 10.1017/s0950268800058714

An outbreak of cryptosporidiosis associated with a resort swimming pool.

W R MacKenzie 1, J J Kazmierczak 1, J P Davis 1
PMCID: PMC2271606  PMID: 8557087

Abstract

An outbreak of cyptosporidiosis occurred in late April 1993 among resort hotel guests which was temporally associated with, but geographically distant from, a massive waterborne outbreak of cryptosporidiosis in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that occurred in late March and early April of 1993. A case-control study was performed among groups with members who reported illness and among a systemic sample of groups who stayed at the resort hotel during the risk period. Of 120 persons interviewed, 51 (43%) met the case definition. Swimming in the resort hotel's pool was significantly associated with case status (OR = 9.8; 95% Cl 3.4, 29.7), as was consumption of ice from the hotel's ice machines (OR = 2.3; 95% Cl 1.01, 5.2). When analysis was restricted only to laboratory-confirmed cases and controls, swimming pool use was the only risk factor significantly associated with illness (OR = 13.0; 95% Cl 2.6, 88.7). Following waterborne outbreaks of cryptosporidiosis associated with water supplies, swimming pools should be considered as possible ongoing sources for transmission regionally.

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