A One-Year Study of Foodborne Illnesses in the Municipality of Uppsala, Sweden
Roland Lindqvist*

, Yvonne Andersson†, Johan Lindbäck†, Maria Wegscheider‡, Yvonne Eriksson‡, Lasse Tideström§, Angela Lagerqvist-Widh¶, Kjell-Olof Hedlund†, Sven Löfdahl†, Lennart Svensson†, and Anna Norinder#
Author affiliations: *National Food Administration, Uppsala, Sweden; †Swedish Institute for Infectious Diseases Control, Solna, Sweden; ‡The Municipality of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden; §The Regional Infectious Disease Unit, Uppsala, Sweden; ¶University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden; #The Swedish Institute for Health Economics, Lund, Sweden
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Table 1
Number of single and outbreak-associated cases in incidents of foodborne illness detected in Uppsala municipality, Sweden, February 1998 through January 1999
No. of cases
in each incident |
No. of incidents of indicated size
(% of total incidents) |
Total no. of cases in
incidents of indicated size |
1 |
183 (68) |
183 |
2 |
59 (22) |
118 |
3 |
11 (4) |
33 |
4 |
5 (2) |
20 |
5 |
3(1) |
15 |
6 |
2 (<1) |
12 |
7 |
2 (<1) |
14 |
12 |
1 (<1) |
12 |
13 |
1 (<1) |
13 |
93
|
1 (<1)
|
93
|
Total
|
268
|
515
|
|
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