2003
DOI: 10.1080/09603120310001616128
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The regionality of campylobacteriosis seasonality in New Zealand

Abstract: New Zealand has one of the highest incidences of campylobacteriosis in the developed world, which leads a global trend of increasing notifications of Campylobacter infections over the last decade. Foodborne and waterborne transmission have been implicated as significant mechanisms in the complex ecology of the disease in New Zealand. We examined both regional and temporal variation in notification rates to gain some insight into the role of the New Zealand environments in modifying disease incidence. Firstly, … Show more

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“…Aggregation of national data will obscure important local or sub-national effects. The relative important of transmission routes may vary within countries, as has been shown in New Zealand (Hearnden et al 2003). Further studies are needed when data become available that can identify the effect of climate on the different campylobacter species and animal reservoirs.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 94%
“…Aggregation of national data will obscure important local or sub-national effects. The relative important of transmission routes may vary within countries, as has been shown in New Zealand (Hearnden et al 2003). Further studies are needed when data become available that can identify the effect of climate on the different campylobacter species and animal reservoirs.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 94%
“…Campylobacter sp. outbreaks occur more often in rural areas, where households often tend to be supplied by private water sources, which tend to be more susceptible to contamination during extreme weather events (Hearnden et al, 2003; Pebody et al, 1997). In Sweden, a positive association was found between Campylobacter incidence and average pipeline length per person for populations not connected to public water supplies (Nygard et al, 2004).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As many human infectious pathogens appear in a regular seasonal pattern [20,21], seasonal exposure to infectious agents may induce bursts of immune diseases, such as IBD [22,23], and there may be an association between the month of birth and risk of developing IBD later in life [24]. In the Asian area, bacterial infections show a seasonal pattern of occurrence that peaks in the spring and summer [25,26], but viral infections generally occur in the autumn and spring [27], which is slightly different from the seasonality found in Western populations according to a number of epidemiological studies [28,29]. The infection pattern in the Asian area is consistent with the data of our study, and this consistency may provide a clue for determining the link between bacterial infection and flares of UC, and viral exposure in early life, such as during pregnancy or postpartum, with an increased chance of developing UC later in life.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%