Acute gastrointestinal illness in two Inuit communities: burden of illness in Rigolet and Iqaluit, Canada

• Published in: Epidemiology and Infection
• Main Authors: HARPER, S. L., EDGE, V. L., FORD, J., THOMAS, M. K., PEARL, D. L., SHIRLEY, J., McEWEN, S. A.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2015
• Subjects: Original Papers; Canada; Nunavut; Rigolet; inuit; Iqaluit
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9151065/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25697261; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268814003744

Food- and waterborne disease is thought to be high in some Canadian Indigenous communities; however, the burden of acute gastrointestinal illness (AGI) is not well understood due to limited availability and quality of surveillance data. This study estimated the burden of community-level self-reporte...