Emerging Infectious Diseases (Mar 2008)

Gastroenteritis Outbreak at Holiday Resort, Central Italy

  • Giacomo Migliorati,
  • Vincenza Prencipe,
  • Alessandro Ripani,
  • Cristina Di Francesco,
  • Claudia Casaccia,
  • Silvia Crudeli,
  • Nicola Ferri,
  • Armando Giovannini,
  • Maria Maddalena Marconi,
  • Cristina Marfoglia,
  • Valeria Melai,
  • Giovanni Savini,
  • Giampiero Scortichini,
  • Primula Semprini,
  • Franco Maria Ruggeri

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1403.070121
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 3
pp. 474 – 478

Abstract

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During the summer of 2003, a gastroenteritis outbreak spread throughout a holiday resort in central Italy. Fecally contaminated groundwater and seawater were leaking into the non–drinking-water system, which was found to be connected to the drinking-water system of a large resort. This contamination had a primary role in the onset of the outbreak and spread of the infection.

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