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A population-based estimate of the burden of diarrhoeal illness in the United States: FoodNet, 1996–7

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HERIKSTAD, H., YANG, S., VAN GILDER, T. J., VUGIA, D., HADLER, J., BLAKE, P., DENEEN, V., SHIFERAW, B. +2 more·2002·Epidemiology and Infection
DOI 10.1017/s0950268801006628PMC PMC2869879
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This study was performed to better understand and more precisely quantify the amount and burden of illness caused by acute diarrhoea in the United States today. A telephone-based population survey was conducted between 1 July, 1996, and 31 June, 1997, in sites of the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet). The overall prevalence of acute diarrhoea in the 4 weeks before interview was 11%, giving a rate of 1.4 episodes of diarrhoea per person per year. The rate of diarrhoeal illness defined as a diarrhoeal episode lasting longer than 1 day or which resulted in significant impairment of daily activities was 0.7 per person per year. It can be concluded that acute diarrhoea is common and represents a significant burden of illness in the United States. Our data on self-reported diarrhoea, when generalized to the entire nation, suggests 375 million episodes of acute diarrhoea each year in the United States. Many of these episodes are mild. However, our data also indicate that there are approximately 200 million episodes of diarrhoeal illness each year in the United States.

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  • The symptoms, severity and duration of illness reported in the current study are similar to other studies, although the median duration and percentage of cases with bloody diarrhoea are at the lower end of the spectrum of reported results.

    “The symptoms, severity and duration of illness we report are similar to other studies [7, 9, 11, 13-16, 18], although the median duration and percentage of our cases with bloody diarrhoea are at the lower end of the spectrum of reported results.”

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    The ‘Diarrhoea and diarrhoeal illness’ section (page not available) reports symptoms, a median diarrhoea duration of 2 days, and bloody diarrhoea in 0.9% of cases, making this paper a relevant comparator. It does not establish that the citing study’s median duration and percentage with bloody diarrhoea fall at the lower end of the range reported across studies. (LLM, conf=0.78)

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Authors
HERIKSTAD, H., YANG, S., VAN GILDER, T. J., VUGIA, D., HADLER, J., BLAKE, P., DENEEN, V., SHIFERAW, B., ANGULO, F. J., & THE FOODNET WORKING GROUP
Affiliations
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
  • California Health and Human Services Agency (US)
  • Connecticut Department of Public Health (US)
  • Georgia Department of Public Health (US)
  • Minnesota Department of Health (US)
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Venue
Epidemiology and Infection
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2002-08
Volume
129
Issue
1
Pages
9-17
ISSN
  • 0950-2688 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-4409
DOI
10.1017/s0950268801006628
PMC
PMC2869879
OpenAlex
W2156582021
Semantic Scholar
9c24e57518fadeba912a99e9ddfae13a260773fe
Cited by
163
References
15
Citations by year
2025: 2 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 5
FWCI
17.53
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 32 d)
Locations
  • Epidemiology and Infection (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Food Safety and Hygiene
Keywords
acute diarrhea, prevalence, FoodNet, population survey, disease burden estimation, United States
MeSH terms
Acute Disease, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S., Child, Child, Preschool, Diarrhea, Female, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Male, Middle Aged, United States, Prevalence, Cost of Illness

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