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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 129, No. 4: 762-768
Copyright © 1989 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

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EPIDEMIOLOGIC SURVEILLANCE FOR ENDEMIC GIARDIA LAMBLIA INFECTION IN VERMONT THE ROLES OF WATERBORNE AND PERSON-TO-PERSON TRANSMISSION

GUTHRIE BIRKHEAD1 1,2,1, and RICHARD L. VOGT1

1Epidemiology Division, Vermont Department of Health Burlington, VT
2Division of Field Services Epidemiology Program Office, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA

Reprint requests to Dr. Richard L. Vogt, Epide miology Division, Vermont Department of Health, Box 70, 60 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05402

The authors studied 1, 211 laboratory-confirmed, non-outbreak-related cases of giardiasis in Vermont residents reported through Vermont's laboratory-based, active surveillance system between 1983 and 1986. Giardiasls was the most common reportable disease in the state, with an average annual incidence rate of 45.9 cases per 100, 000 population per year. This rate is higher than that in other states reporting giardiasis incidence. Morbidity from giardiasis was also significant in that 30% of cases reported symptoms lasting four or more weeks. Waterbome transmission was suggested to be an important cause of nonoutbreak-related cases because rates of infection were highest in persons receiving nonfiltered municipal or nonmunicipal residential drinking water. Rates were also higher at higher elevations, where water supplies may be difficult to protect from contamination. in addition, the pattern of age-specitlc incidence rates and the high estimated incidence of infection in children attending day care suggested that person-to-person transmission also played a role in causing non- outbreak-related cases. Routine surveillance data can serve to indicate likely important routes of transmission of glardlasis in the community.

Glardla; giardlasis; water supply

1Current address: New York State Department of Health, Bureau of Communicable Disease Control, Albany, NY


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