The use of outbreak information in the interpretation of clustering of reported cases of <i>Escherichia coli</i> O157 in space and time in Alberta, Canada, 2000–2002

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We obtained a list of all reported cases of Escherichia coli O157 in Alberta during the 2000-2002 period, and using scan statistics we identified yearly temporal and spatial clusters of reported cases of E. coli O157 during the summer and in southern Alberta. However, the location of the spatial cluster in the south was variable among years. The impact of using both outbreak and sporadic data or only sporadic...

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