Volume 12, Number 2, February 2006

Waterborne Toxoplasmosis, Brazil, from Field to Gene

Lenildo de Moura,* Lilian Maria Garcia Bahia-Oliveira,† Marcelo Y. Wada,* Jeffrey L. Jones,‡ Suely H. Tuboi,* Eduardo H. Carmo,* Walter Massa Ramalho,*  Natal J. Camargo,§ Ronaldo Trevisan,§ Regina M.T. Graça,¶ Alexandre J. da Silva,‡ Iaci Moura,‡ J.P. Dubey,# and Denise O. Garrett**
*Ministério de Saúde, Brasília, Brasil; †Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; ‡Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; §Secretaria de Saúde do Estado do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil; ¶Laboratório Central de Saúde Pública, Curitiba, Brazil; #United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland; **Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Figure 2. Spatial distribution in km² of the 176 cases that met the case definition. The number of cases is higher in the central area than in the periphery. The reservoir tanks served 2 different parts of the city as depicted by the letters A and B. Water samples from reservoir B, which was considered not implicated in the outbreak, were not investigated; during the water sample collection period (January 9–18), there were no identified household tanks served by reservoir B that had stored water that had been distributed during the outbreak peak.

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