A Multistate Outbreak of Cyclosporiasis

Author(s)
Jeanette K. Stehr-Green, MD
Date published
Aug, 2004
Last updated
31 Jan 2020

Summary

Local outbreak of cyclosporiasis was harbinger of multistate outbreak in 1996-1997; initially thought linked to strawberries, ultimately traced to raspberries from Guatemala.  

Objectives:

  • Use the modes of transmission and incubation period for a disease to focus the search for the source of an outbreak;
  • Describe the two most common types of epidemiologic studies routinely used to investigate outbreaks;
  • Interpret the results of an epidemiologic study;
  • Consider potential sources of error in designing or carrying out an epidemiologic study;
  • Apply the criteria for causation to the results of an outbreak investigation;
  • List considerations in implementing control measures before confirmation of the source of an outbreak;
  • Describe the occurrence, signs and symptoms, and control of cyclosporiasis.
Author Type: 
Unspecified
Languages: 
English
Resource type: 
Case Study
Topics: 
Outbreak response Epidemiology training Applied epidemiology
Regions: 
Americas Region
Countries: 
United States of America