An outbreak of cryptosporidiosis in the Netherlands

I. A. van Asperen; T Mank; G. J. Medema; C Stijnen; A S de Boer; J. F. Groot; P TenHam; J. F. Sluiters; M W Borgdorff

doi:10.2807/esm.01.02.00126-en

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An outbreak of cryptosporidiosis in the Netherlands
I. A. van Asperen¹ , T Mank² , G. J. Medema¹ , C Stijnen³ , A S de Boer¹ , J. F. Groot⁴ , P TenHam⁵ , J. F. Sluiters⁶ , M W Borgdorff¹
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Affiliations: ¹ National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, The Netherlands ² General Practitioners Laboratory, Haarlem, The Netherlands ³ Ruwaard van Putten Hospital, Spijkenisse, The Netherlands ⁴ Regional Health Department, Spijkenisse, The Netherlands ⁵ Regional Health Department, Haarlem, The Netherlands ⁶ University Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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Citation style for this article: van Asperen I. A., Mank T, Medema G. J., Stijnen C, de Boer A S, Groot J. F., TenHam P, Sluiters J. F., Borgdorff M W. An outbreak of cryptosporidiosis in the Netherlands. Euro Surveill. 1996;1(2):pii=126. https://doi.org/10.2807/esm.01.02.00126-en

Abstract

A hospital microbiologist in Spijkenisse, in the south west of the Netherlands - who had recently attended a parasitology course - identified cryptosporidial oocysts in stools from a patient with diarrhoea on 16 August 1995. Re-examination of 89 stool spe