A Study of Illness in a Group of Cleveland Families: Xii. The Association of Respiratory and Gastrointestinal Symptoms; An Estimation of the Magnitude and Time Relations of the Association1

Mccorkle, Lois P.; Badger, George F.; Curtiss, Constance; Dingle, John H.; Hodges, Richard G.; Jordan, William S.

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a119848

American Journal of Epidemiology

1956

DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a119848

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A Study of Illness in a Group of Cleveland Families: Xii. The Association of Respiratory and Gastrointestinal Symptoms; An Estimation of the Magnitude and Time Relations of the Association1

Lois P. Mccorkle¹,

George F. Badger²,

Constance Curtiss³

et al.

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Diarrhoea in general practice: a sixteen-year report of investigations in a microbiology laboratory, with epidemiological assessment

Thomas

Tillett

1975

J. Hyg.

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SUMMARYResults are presented of the laboratory examination of faeces specimens from 20,273 patients with acute diarrhoea. These were household index cases seen in general practice in a London borough during the years 1953-68. An annual average of about 2 % of households in the area were affected, but there was considerable fluctuation with year and season. Half the patients were children although only one-fifth of the population at risk was under 15 years of age. The greatest incidence of diarrhoea was among children under 5 years old. Male children, but female adults predominated.Specimens were sent for laboratory diagnosis at the discretion of the general practitioner. The laboratory found some abnormality in nearly a third and there were indications that transmissible infection was involved in about one-fifth of patients. The most common diagnosis was Sonne dysentery (9 %) which came in epidemic waves and made its greatest impact among young school children.Microscopy was useful, and giardiasis was diagnosed in 1-4 % of index patients.Other parasites were less commonly found. Fatty globules characteristic of an infectious condition we have called 'fatty diarrhoea' were frequently observed by microscopy in stools from young children and occasionally from older persons. Blood or pus cells were seen in less than half the shigella and salmonella infections and in a much smaller proportion of the remainder. A test for occult blood performed on specimens from all patients of 40 years or older was positive, in the absence of visible red cells, in a tenth of these cases.Other studies on the bacteriology of diarrhoea in general practice are referred to and some epidemiological comparisons made. The possible place of unidentified infective agents in the aetiology of undiagnosed diarrhoeas and of 'fatty diarrhoea' is discussed.

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Diarrhoea in general practice: a sixteen-year report of investigations in a microbiology laboratory, with epidemiological assessment

Thomas

Tillett

1975

J. Hyg.

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The rate of acute gastrointestinal illness in developed countries

Roy

Scallan

Beach

2006

Journal of Water and Health

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Chloroisocyanurates are commonly added to outdoor swimming pools to stabilize chlorine disinfectants. The chloroisocyanurates decompose slowly to release chlorine and cyanuric acid.Studies conducted to determine if the chloroisocyanurates might be toxic to swimmers showed that they were not and that ingested cyanuric acid passed through the body unmetabolized. This fact was used to determine the amount of water swallowed during swimming activity. Fifty-three recreational swimmers, using a community swimming pool disinfected with cyanuric acid stabilized chlorine, participated in the study. The participants did not swim on the day before or after the test swim. The swimmers were asked to actively swim for at least 45 minutes and to collect their urine for the next 24 hours. Cyanuric acid was measured in pool water using high performance liquid chromatography and porous graphitic carbon columns with UV detection. The urine sample assay required a clean-up procedure to remove urinary proteins and interfering substances. Results of the study indicate that non-adults ingest about twice as much water as adults during swimming activity. The average amount of water swallowed by non-adults and adults was 37 ml and 16 ml, respectively. The design for this study and the analytical methodology used to assay cyanuric acid in swimming pool water and human urine were effective for measuring the volume of water swallowed during swimming activity.

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Outbreak of Nonbacterial Gastroenteritis at a Boy Scout Ranch

Foley¹,

Chin²

1959

Public Health Reports (1896-1970)

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A Study of Illness in a Group of Cleveland Families: Xii. The Association of Respiratory and Gastrointestinal Symptoms; An Estimation of the Magnitude and Time Relations of the Association1

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Diarrhoea in general practice: a sixteen-year report of investigations in a microbiology laboratory, with epidemiological assessment

Diarrhoea in general practice: a sixteen-year report of investigations in a microbiology laboratory, with epidemiological assessment

The rate of acute gastrointestinal illness in developed countries

Outbreak of Nonbacterial Gastroenteritis at a Boy Scout Ranch

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