Outbreak Investigations around the World: Case Studies in Infectious Disease Field Epidemiology

摘要

Outbreak investigations are fas-cinating stories. Mark S. Dworkin, Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Class of 1994, has compiled 19 fi rst-hand accounts of case studies in in-fectious disease epidemiology and presents them in chronological order. The fi rst is Kenrad Nelson's 1964 in-vestigation of leptospirosis associated with swimming in an irrigation ditch in rural Washington; the last, Patri-cia Quinlisk's evaluation of a 2006 mumps epidemic in Iowa. In between are investigations involving 8 bacte-rial infections, 6 viruses, 1 helminth (Taenia solium), 1 protozoan (Cryp-tosporidium sp.), and a misdiagnosis of Entamoeba histolytica. Fourteen of the outbreaks occurred in the United States; of the remaining 5, one each occurred in Portugal, Israel, Egypt, Gabon, and Liberia