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- Title
Swimming Pool-Associated Vittaforma-Like Microsporidia Linked to Microsporidial Keratoconjunctivitis Outbreak, Taiwan.
- Authors
Jung-Sheng Chen; Tsui-Kang Hsu; Bing-Mu Hsu; Shih-Chun Chao; Tung-Yi Huang; Dar-Der Ji; Pei-Yu Yang; I-Hsiu Huang; Chen, Jung-Sheng; Hsu, Tsui-Kang; Hsu, Bing-Mu; Chao, Shih-Chun; Huang, Tung-Yi; Ji, Dar-Der; Yang, Pei-Yu; Huang, I-Hsiu
- Abstract
We analyzed 2 batches of environmental samples after a microsporidial keratoconjunctivitis outbreak in Taiwan. Results indicated a transmission route from a parking lot to a foot washing pool to a swimming pool and suggested that accumulation of mud in the foot washing pool during the rainy season might be a risk factor.
- Subjects
TAIWAN; KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS; MICROSPORIDIA; SWIMMING pools; ENVIRONMENTAL sampling; DISEASE risk factors; COMMUNICABLE disease epidemiology; PUBLIC health surveillance; RESEARCH; COMMUNICABLE diseases; ANIMAL experimentation; RESEARCH methodology; FUNGI; EVALUATION research; MEDICAL cooperation; AQUATIC microbiology; COMPARATIVE studies; MYCOSES; EPIDEMICS; SWIMMING
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2019, Vol 25, Issue 11, p2100
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.3201/eid2511.181483