Infectious Disease

Tap water treatment may not eradicate Giardia lamblia

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, April 8th, 2003

Tap water treatment may not eradicate pathogenic Giardia species

Researchers in England performed a study "to investigate risk factors for sporadic infection with Giardia lamblia acquired in the United Kingdom".

J. M. Stuart and coauthors at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital "conducted a matched case-control study in southwest England in 1998 and 1999," according to their report. "Response rates to a postal questionnaire were 84% (232/276) for cases and 69% (574/828) for controls."

"In multivariable analysis, swallowing water while swimming (p < 0.0001, odds ratio [OR] 6.2, 95% confidence intervals [CI] 2.3 to...

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