Table 5 Sporadic domestic reportable gastrointestinal illnesses in Ontario by exposure source and setting between 2007 and 2009
From: A descriptive study of reportable gastrointestinal illnesses in Ontario, Canada, from 2007 to 2009
Reportable disease | Primary source (%)* | Primary setting (%)† | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | Animal | Food | Person | Water | Other | n | Food premises | Private home | Other | |
Amebiasis | 120 | 1.7% | 8.3% | 82.5% | 5.8% | 1.7% | 15 | 33.3% | 26.7% | 40.0% |
Botulism | 1 | 0.0% | 100.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
Campylobacteriosis | 1,272 | 26.9% | 63.1% | 6.0% | 2.8% | 1.3% | 796 | 31.2% | 47.5% | 21.3% |
Cryptosporidiosis | 161 | 47.2% | 9.3% | 11.8% | 29.2% | 2.5% | 92 | 2.2% | 16.3% | 81.5% |
Cyclosporiasis | 18 | 0.0% | 100.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 10 | 70.0% | 20.0% | 10.0% |
Giardiasis | 344 | 14.2% | 5.5% | 36.0% | 40.7% | 3.5% | 164 | 3.7% | 33.5% | 62.8% |
Hepatitis A | 54 | 0.0% | 7.4% | 87.0% | 0.0% | 5.6% | 16 | 25.0% | 50.0% | 25.0% |
Listeriosis | 12 | 8.3% | 75.0% | 8.3% | 8.3% | 0.0% | 9 | 22.2% | 44.4% | 33.3% |
Paratyphoid Fever | 2 | 0.0% | 50.0% | 50.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1 | 0.0% | 100.0% | 0.0% |
Salmonellosis | 1,148 | 15.2% | 73.1% | 9.9% | 1.3% | 0.4% | 754 | 37.7% | 48.4% | 14.0% |
Shigellosis | 90 | 0.0% | 16.7% | 80.0% | 0.0% | 3.3% | 28 | 46.4% | 50.0% | 3.6% |
Typhoid Fever | 2 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 50.0% | 0.0% | 50.0% | 2 | 0.0% | 100.0% | 0.0% |
VTEC-illness | 158 | 18.4% | 49.4% | 19.6% | 10.8% | 1.9% | 106 | 28.3% | 43.4% | 28.3% |
Yersiniosis | 84 | 15.5% | 81.0% | 1.2% | 0.0% | 2.4% | 65 | 15.4% | 66.2% | 18.5% |
Total | 3,466 | 19.8% | 54.2% | 16.9% | 7.6% | 1.5% | 2,058 | 29.7% | 45.5% | 24.8% |