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Volume 21, Number 11—November 2015
Synopsis

Use of Internet Search Queries to Enhance Surveillance of Foodborne Illness

Gyung Jin BahkComments to Author , Yong Soo Kim, and Myoung Su Park
Author affiliations: Kunsan National University, Gunsan, South Korea (G.J. Bahk, M.S. Park); Korea Health Industry Development Institute, Cheongwon, South Korea (Y.S. Kim)

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Table 1

ICD-10 codes for causes of bacterial foodborne illness and infectious enteritis and number of inpatient hospital stays for each, South Korea, January 2010–December 2012*

ICD-10 code Diagnosis No. inpatient stays
All 3 y 3-y monthly average ± SD %
A02 Nontyphoidal Salmonella infections
A02.0 Salmonella Enteritis (salmonellosis) 1,623 45.1 ± 21.3 4.8
A02.8 Other specified salmonella infections 100 2.8 ± 3.1 0.3
A02.9
 Salmonella infection, unspecified
 1,251
 34.8 ± 17.5
 3.7
A03 Shigellosis
A03.0 Shigellosis due to Shigella dysenteriae 13 1.3 ± 0.7 0.1
A03.1 Shigellosis due to Shigella flexneri 54 2.1 ± 1.5 0.2
A03.2 Shigellosis due to Shigella boydii 7 1.2 ± 0.4 0.1
A03.3 Shigellosis due to Shigella sonnei 50 2.3 ± 1.2 0.2
A03.8 Other shigellosis 20 1.5 ± 1.1 0.2
A03.9
 Shigellosis, unspecified
 190
 5.4 ± 4.4
 0.6
A04 Other bacterial intestinal infections
A04.0 Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli infection 131 3.6 ± 2.8 0.4
A04.1 Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli infection 13 1.2 ± 0.6 0.1
A04.2 Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli infection 7 1.2 ± 0.4 0.1
A04.3 Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli infection 72 2.6 ± 1.9 0.3
A04.4 Other intestinal Escherichia coli infection 497 13.8 ± 4.6 1.5
A04.5 Campylobacter enteritis 39 2.0 ± 1.1 0.2
A04.6 Enteritis due to Yersinia enterocolitica 6 1.2 ± 0.4 0.1
A04.8 Other specified bacterial intestinal infections 3.453 95.9 ± 28.0 10.2
A04.9
 Bacterial intestinal infection, unspecified
 20,897
 580.5 ± 114.1
 62.0
A05 Other bacterial foodborne intoxications, not elsewhere classified
A05.0 Foodborne staphylococcal intoxication 42 2.0 ± 1.2 0.2
A05.1 Botulism (classical foodborne intoxication due to Clostridium botulinum) 11 1.4 ± 0.7 0.1
A05.2 Foodborne Clostridium perfringens (Clostridium welchii) intoxication 60 2.2 ± 1.2 0.2
A05.3 Foodborne Vibrio parahaemolyticus intoxication 132 5.5 ± 6.5 0.6
A05.4 Foodborne Bacillus cereus intoxication 14 2.8 ± 2.7 0.3
A05.8 Other specified bacterial foodborne intoxications 348 9.7 ± 4.8 1.0
A05.9 Bacterial foodborne intoxication, unspecified 4,069 113.0 ± 40.6 12.1
A32
 Listerial foodborne infection
 30
 1.5 ± 0.8
 0.2
Total 33,129 936.4 ± 190.2 100.0

*ICD-10, International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision.

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