An outbreak of cryptosporidiosis associated with a resort swimming pool

Epidemiol Infect. 1995 Dec;115(3):545-53. doi: 10.1017/s0950268800058714.

Abstract

An outbreak of cyptosporidiosis occurred in late April 1993 among resort hotel guests which was temporally associated with, but geographically distant from, a massive waterborne outbreak of cryptosporidiosis in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that occurred in late March and early April of 1993. A case-control study was performed among groups with members who reported illness and among a systemic sample of groups who stayed at the resort hotel during the risk period. Of 120 persons interviewed, 51 (43%) met the case definition. Swimming in the resort hotel's pool was significantly associated with case status (OR = 9.8; 95% Cl 3.4, 29.7), as was consumption of ice from the hotel's ice machines (OR = 2.3; 95% Cl 1.01, 5.2). When analysis was restricted only to laboratory-confirmed cases and controls, swimming pool use was the only risk factor significantly associated with illness (OR = 13.0; 95% Cl 2.6, 88.7). Following waterborne outbreaks of cryptosporidiosis associated with water supplies, swimming pools should be considered as possible ongoing sources for transmission regionally.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Animals
  • Case-Control Studies
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Cryptosporidiosis / epidemiology*
  • Cryptosporidiosis / parasitology
  • Cryptosporidiosis / transmission
  • Cryptosporidium parvum / isolation & purification*
  • Disease Outbreaks*
  • Feces / parasitology
  • Female
  • Gastrointestinal Diseases / epidemiology
  • Gastrointestinal Diseases / parasitology
  • Health Resorts*
  • Humans
  • Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / epidemiology
  • Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / parasitology
  • Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / transmission
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Risk Factors
  • Swimming Pools*
  • Water Microbiology*
  • Wisconsin / epidemiology