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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jun 30.
Published in final edited form as: Foodborne Pathog Dis. 2019 Oct 7;17(2):67–86. doi: 10.1089/fpd.2019.2692

Table 1.

Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria

Criterion Inclusion Exclusion
Time period Articles published between January 1, 2000 and April 1, 2018 Studies outside these dates
Language Articles available in English Non-English studies
Type of article All epidemiological study designs relaying original data on the incidence or prevalence Individual case studies/case reports
Etiology Campylobacter, Salmonella (nontyphoidal serotypes), Escherichia coli, Listeria, Shigella, Yersinia, Cryptosporidium, Cyclospora, Giardia, Norovirus “Traveler’s diarrhea” was not included as a search term, but was not excluded initially if captured in the search. If no organism was mentioned, results were grouped under “other.”
Infectious disease Illness identified as “infectious gastroenteritis” Same criteria as “traveler’s diarrhea”
Outcomes IBS, IBD, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, GERD, dyspepsia, celiac, chronic constipation, reactive arthritis, Reiter’s syndrome, “Joint Pain” Studies where the outcome was a risk factor for other infections only
Disease burden QALY, DALY,EQ-5D Economic burden of the acute infection only, or economic burden of the chronic outcome only

See Appendix 1 for full search terms.

DALY, disability-adjusted life year; EQ-5D, EuroQoL 5-Dimension; GERD, gastroesophageal reflux disease; IBD, inflammatory bowel disease; IBS, irritable bowel syndrome; QALY, quality-adjusted life year.