Volume 18, Number 2—February 2012
Dispatch
Extended Outbreak of Cryptosporidiosis in a Pediatric Hospital, China
Yaoyu Feng
, Lin Wang, Liping Duan, Luis A. Gomez-Puerta, Longxian Zhang, Xukun Zhao, Jingjing Hu, Nan Zhang, and Lihua Xiao
, Lin Wang, Liping Duan, Luis A. Gomez-Puerta, Longxian Zhang, Xukun Zhao, Jingjing Hu, Nan Zhang, and Lihua XiaoTable
Distribution of Cryptosporidium spp. and subtypes among wards in a hospital in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, September 2007–October 2009*
| Ward | No. patient samples | % Positive (95% CI) | No. patients positive |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C. meleagridis | C. hominis | IaA14R4 | IdA19 | IbA19G2 | IdA14 | |||
| A | 74 | 51.4 (35.0–67.7) | 0 | 38 | 19 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| B | 348 | 0.6 (0–1.4) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| C | 283 | 1.8 (0.2–3.3) | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| D | 216 | 2.3 (0.3–4.3) | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| E | 266 | 1.1 (0–2.4) | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| F | 56 | 1.8 (0–5.3) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Others | 349 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unknown | 1653 | 2.2 (1.5–2.9) | 0 | 36 | 13 | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 3,245 | 28 (2.2–3.3) | 4 | 86 | 34 | 37 | 1 | 1 |
*Among 86 specimens positive for C. hominis, 78 were gp60 positive and 73 were subtyped. In 2 other hospitals, II and III, among 6 C. hominis–specimens, 1 was IaA18R4 (hospital II), 1 was IgA14 (hospital III), 2 were IaA14R4 (hospital III), and 2 were gp60 negative (hospitals II and III); 2 patients each were positive for C. meleagridis, C. canis, and C. felis.
