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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.

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

  

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

  1. * International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision [19]
  2. † 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