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ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2021

Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Sporadic Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Enteritis, Ireland, 2013-2017.

Eimear Cleary, Martin Boudou, Patricia Garvey, Coilin Oh Aiseadha, Paul McKeown, Jean O'Dwyer, Paul Hynds

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Article in Emerging infectious diseases, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Eimear Cleary
Martin Boudou
Patricia Garvey
Coilin Oh Aiseadha
Paul McKeown
Jean O'Dwyer
Paul Hynds
University College Cork · IEHealth Protection Surveillance Centre · IETechnological University Dublin · IE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Republic of Ireland regularly reports the highest annual crude incidence rates of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) enteritis in the European Union, ≈10 times the average. We investigated spatiotemporal patterns of STEC enteritis in Ireland using multiple statistical tools. Overall, we georeferenced 2,755 cases of infection during January 2013-December 2017; we found >1 case notified in 2,340 (12.6%) of 18,641 Census Small Areas. We encountered the highest case numbers in children 0-5 years of age (n = 1,101, 39.6%) and associated with serogroups O26 (n = 800, 29%) and O157 (n = 638, 23.2%). Overall, we identified 17 space-time clusters, ranging from 2 (2014) to 5 (2017) clusters of sporadic infection per year; we detected recurrent clustering in 3 distinct geographic regions in the west and mid-west, all of which are primarily rural. Our findings can be used to enable targeted epidemiologic intervention and surveillance.

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EnteritisEscherichia coli InfectionsShiga-Toxigenic Escherichia coliChildHumansIncidenceIrelandbacteriaclusteringenteric infectionsEscherichia colifood safetyIrelandShiga toxinShiga toxin–producing E. colispace-time scanningspatial epidemiologysporadic infectionSTECverocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coliVTEC

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PMID34424163
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