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High proximity in daycare centers is a well established risk factor for upper respiratory tract infections as well as Haemophilus influenza meningitis. Many studies have also reported the development of gastroenteritis as well as hepatitis A outbreaks in daycare centers; however, because of lack of controls, these studies do not provide enough information about the excess of risk attributable to daycare attendance. Main risk factors such as age, or seasons, are still very important in daycare centers and studies have also shown that a protection occurs rapidly after the beginning of attendance, may be in relation to the stimulation of the non-specific immunity. All these results do not provide enough data to implement a rational intervention project. More studies have to be carried out to assess the long term consequences (at school age for instance) of these infections. In order to make a rational decision regarding daycare attendance, it is important to have a global assessment of all the effects related to attendance (which are numerous and sometimes opposite); studies focusing on a single aspect of daycare attendance, or on its short term effect, may result in partial and misleading conclusions.
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PMID:[Infectious risk in day-nursery children]. 148 Sep 40

Acute centrolobular necrosis, cancers related to occupational chemical exposures, and infectious hepatitis are widely recognized, but other occupational and environmental diseases of the gastrointestinal tract are underemphasized by comparison. This review explores the associations between workplace exposures and steatosis, increased liver microsomal activity, cholestatic liver injury, portal fibrosis and hepatic sclerosis, granulomatous liver disease, porphyria cutanea tarda, peptic ulcer disease, pancreatitis, gastroenteritis, celiac disease, and pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis.
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PMID:Unusual occupational gastrointestinal and hepatic disorders. 149 28

For the 2-year period 1989-1990, 16 states reported 26 outbreaks due to water intended for drinking; an estimated total of 4,288 persons became ill in these outbreaks. Giardia lamblia was implicated as the etiologic agent for seven of the 12 outbreaks in which an agent was identified. The outbreaks of giardiasis were all associated with ingestion of unfiltered surface water or surface-influenced groundwater. An outbreak with four deaths was attributed to Escherichia coli O157:H7, the only bacterial pathogen implicated in any of the outbreak investigations. An outbreak of remitting, relapsing diarrhea was associated with cyanobacteria (blue-green algae)-like bodies, whose role in causing diarrheal illness is being studied. Two outbreaks due to hepatitis A and one due to a Norwalk-like agent were associated with use of well water. Eighteen states reported a total of 30 outbreaks due to the use of recreational water, which resulted in illness for an estimated total of 1,062 persons. These 30 reports comprised 13 outbreaks of whirlpool- or hot tub-associated Pseudomonas folliculitis; 13 outbreaks of swimming-associated gastroenteritis, including five outbreaks of shigellosis; one outbreak of hepatitis A associated with a swimming pool; and three cases of primary amebic meningoencephalitis caused by Naegleria. The national surveillance of outbreaks of waterborne diseases, which has proceeded for 2 decades, continues to be a useful means for characterizing the epidemiology of waterborne diseases.
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PMID:Waterborne-disease outbreaks, 1989-1990. 177 Sep 24

On an average, preschool children have 6-8 acute infections annually. This corresponds to approximately 80 sick-days including mild colds. If days in which the general health is affected only are included, approximately 25 days per child per annum are concerned. The amount of sickness in children attending day care centres is between 2-7 times as great as that of children cared for in their own homes. In particular, an increased risk has been demonstrated for children attending day care centres to develop conditions such as secretory otitis media, pneumonia, gastroenteritis, hepatitis A and meningitis. A close dose-response connection can be demonstrated between ill health and the number of children with whom the child is cared for. The increased possibilities of exposure to infection in day institutions must, therefore, be assumed to be the central factor for the excess morbidity demonstrated. The significances of a series of modifying factors in the pathogenesis, including age, genetically determined immunity, psychosocial stress, atmospheric contamination, quality of atmosphere and low temperatures, are reviewed. Despite the term "colds", there is no evidence that upper respiratory infections have any connection with cooling. With the object of establishing rational measures against spread of infection, the occurrence and routes of infection of the relevant microorganisms are reviewed. About 80% of the infections must be presumed to be viral. In children attending day care centres, viruses have been demonstrated in 10% of the children without symptoms. Air-borne infection appears to be responsible for a very limited proportion of infections. The routes of infection are mainly by direct or indirect contact infection e.g. via tables and toys.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:[Forms of care and children's infections. 1. Occurrence and causal factors]. 221 71

Previous epidemiological studies have detected a substantial risk of gastroenteritis associated with snorkel swimming events in the Bristol City Docks. The event has since been discontinued. Similar risks were not identified at that time for surface-based events. A subsequent fatality from Weil's disease (Leptospirosis) and a case of Hepatitis A associated with surface water immersion in the Bristol City Docks water prompted this study of Leptospiral and Hepatitis A immunity amongst regular windsurfers and waterskiers. Although one person showed evidence of past Leptospiral infection and several people showed evidence of previous Hepatitis A, a causal association with Docks water exposure was not established. Nevertheless, there was sufficient public concern to justify the introduction of precautions against the potential health risks associated with immersion in the City Docks. The study findings and these preventive measures are described.
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PMID:Leptospiral and hepatitis A antibodies amongst windsurfers and waterskiers in Bristol City Docks. 278 28

The "enteric" virus group comprises greater than 100 different viruses. These viruses typically infect the cell lining of the alimentary canal and are discharged in very large numbers in the feces of infected persons. Contamination of water supplies by enteric viruses represents an important source of viral infection. Many communities, particularly in developing countries, depend on sewage-polluted sources for their recreational and drinking water. Because conventional methods of sewage and water treatment have proved inefficient in the removal and inactivation of most enteric viruses, great concern has been raised over the impact of waterborne infection on the health of such communities. Current evidence implicating drinking and recreational water supplies in the transmission of nonbacterial gastroenteritis and hepatitis A virus and adenovirus infections is overwhelming. Water-borne transmission of other enteric viruses is also possible. Effective antiviral drugs are generally unavailable, and current vaccines can control only a limited number of viral infections; therefore, provision of uncontaminated water is a basic requirement in raising the standard of health in affected communities.
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PMID:Transmission of viral infections by the water route: implications for developing countries. 298 98

Different variants of immune electron microscopy method used for the detection of rotaviruses and hepatitis A virus in specimens from patients were compared. Immune electron microscopy using filtration into agar was shown to be the optimal method for diagnosis of such prevalent infections as rotavirus gastroenteritis and viral hepatitis A.
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PMID:[Comparative study of the effectiveness of immunoelectron microscopic methods for detecting rotaviruses and the hepatitis A virus]. 302 94

There is little information on the risk of acquiring hepatitis A from drinking sewage-contaminated water. In a large outbreak of gastrointestinal illness at Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, a US national park, in June-July, 1975, approximately 100,000 persons were exposed to sewage-contaminated water. State health departments reported three cases of Crater Lake-associated hepatitis A for a rate of 12/100,000 per year, comparable to the reported US incidence of non-B hepatitis 10/100,000 per year. Questionnaire survey of 3997 overnight park visitors revealed five cases of hepatitis A, occurring in 2206 persons who drank water but did not receive immune serum globulin (ISG) within two weeks of exposure, an attack rate of 0.23%. The association between drinking park water and subsequently developing hepatitis was not statistically significant. No cases of hepatitis occurred in 320 park staff and family members, repeatedly exposed to contaminated water. The authors do not recommend routine use of prophylactic ISG for similar outbreaks of gastroenteritis caused by sewage-contaminated water but suggest close surveillance of the exposed group, and careful consideration of risk factors and costs.
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PMID:The risk of acquiring hepatitis from sewage-contaminated water. 677 22

A method for the detection of Norwalk virus and hepatitis A virus from shellfish tissues by PCR was developed. Virus was added to the stomach and hepatopancreatic tissues of oysters or hard-shell clams, and viral nucleic acids were purified by a modification of a previously described method (R.L. Atmar, T.G. Metcalf, F.H. Neill, and M.K. Estes, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 59:631-635, 1993). The new method had the following advantages compared with the previously described method: (i) more rapid sample processing; (ii) increased test sensitivity; (iii) decreased sample-associated interference with reverse transcription-PCR; and (iv) use of chloroform-butanol in place of the chlorofluorocarbon trichlorotrifluoroethane. In addition, internal standards for both Norwalk virus and hepatitis A virus were made which demonstrated when inhibitors to reverse transcription-PCR were present and allowed quantitation of the viral nucleic acids present in samples. This assay can be used to investigate shellfish-associated gastroenteritis outbreaks and to study factors involved in virus persistence in shellfish.
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PMID:Detection of Norwalk virus and hepatitis A virus in shellfish tissues with the PCR. 748 32

Certain health risks have been associated with recreational exposure to faecally polluted water. Canoeing in certain South African waters is considered to be a high risk activity with regard to schistosomiasis, gastroenteritis and possibly hepatitis. In a cross-sectional study, a serosurvey was conducted amongst canoeists to ascertain whether or not they had a higher seroprevalence to hepatitis A virus, Norwalk virus and Schistosoma spp. than non-canoeists. In comparisons between the two groups, a significant association could not be demonstrated between canoeing and antibody response to hepatitis A and Norwalk viruses (P-values for age-adjusted chi 2 were 0.083 and 0.219 respectively), but a significant association could be demonstrated between canoeing and the antibody response to Schistosoma spp. (P < 0.001; age-adjusted).
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PMID:A serosurvey of water-borne pathogens amongst canoeists in South Africa. 758 69


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