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Volume 27, Number 4—April 2021
Research

Sexual Contact as Risk Factor for Campylobacter Infection, Denmark

Katrin Gaardbo KuhnComments to Author , Anne Kathrine Hvass, Annette Hartvig Christiansen, Steen Ethelberg, and Susan Alice Cowan
Author affiliations: University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA (K.G. Kuhn); Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark (K.G. Kuhn, A.K. Hvass, A.H. Christiansen, S. Ethelberg, S.A. Cowan); University of Copenhagen Department of Public Health, Copenhagen (S. Ethelberg)

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Table 1

Gastrointestinal diseases reported to Statens Serum Institut, Denmark, 2010–2018*

Pathogen Patients with enteric infection exposures, n = 49,321 MSM, n = 4,186 Controls, n = 15,250
Campylobacter 37,602 132 (3) 74 (0.5)
Annual incidence 7.4‡ 35§ 5.4§
Recurrent infections 524 (1.4) 4 (3) 0
Foreign travel† 7,252 (19) 15 (11) 24 (32)
Age <40 y
19,930 (53)
 79 (60)
 35 (47)
Salmonella 10,450 3 (0.1) 44 (0.3)
Annual incidence 2.1‡ 7.2§ 3.2§
Recurrent infections 109 (1) 0 0
Foreign travel† 3,916 (37) 1 (33) 9 (20)
Age <40 y
 3,380 (32)
 1 (33)
 15 (34)
Shigella 1,269 64 (1.5) 4 (0.03)
Annual incidence 0.2‡ 17§ 0.3§
Recurrent infections 15 (1.2) 0 0
Foreign travel† 527 (42) 7 (11) 1 (25)
Age <40 y
 838 (66)
 39 (61)
 3 (75)
*Values are no. (%) except as indicated, except incidence, which is given as cases/10,000 population. MSM, men who have sex with men. 
†Travel information was unknown for 57 patients with Campylobacter infections, 25 patients with Salmonella infections, and 55 patients with Shigella infections (both MSMs and controls). 
‡Annual incidence refers to incidence in the population of Denmark. 
§Annual incidence refers to incidence in the sample population.

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