Water and sewage systems, socio-demographics, and duration of residence associated with endemic intestinal infectious diseases: A cohort study

Table 1 Number of subjects with physician visits and hospitalizations for intestinal infectious diseases, 1995 to 2003 inclusive, in a mixed rural-urban community in Metro Vancouver.

		Number of subjects with a
ICD-9 Code*	Disease description	physician visit	hospitalization
003	Other Salmonella infections	65	0
004	Shigellosis	20	0
007	Other protozoal intestinal diseases (includes balantidiasis, giardiasis, coccidiosis, intestinal trichomoniasis, cryptosporidiosis, cyclosporiasis)	21	0
008	Intestinal infections due to other organisms	721	^†180
009	Ill-defined intestinal infections	6190	0
	Total all diseases above	7017	180

* International Classification of Diseases, 9^th Revision [19]
^† 15 were identified as having either 008.0 E. coli or 008.5 Unspecified bacterial enteritis; the remaining 165 were identified as 008.8 Other organisms, not elsewhere classified

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