title: Impact of child day care on infectious diseases in adults.
abstract: The authors review diseases that occur in day care centers and their impact on day care providers and parents. Acute infections of the gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts are the most commonly transmitted illnesses from children in day care centers to adults. The most important infections acquired by adults are those with the potential for significant clinical morbidity, such as hepatitis A, or those that generate concern, such as cytomegalovirus and parvovirus B19, because of their potential to produce congenital infections in pregnant women.
authors.affiliation: Denver Disease Control Service of Denver Health and Hospitals, Colorado.
authors.forename: R R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Reves
authors.forename: L K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Pickering
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002656:Child Day Care Centers; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003140:Communicable Disease Control; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000635:transmission; D003586:Cytomegalovirus Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission; D005260:Female; D005759:Gastroenteritis / Q000453:epidemiology; D006506:Hepatitis A / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D010322:Parvoviridae Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission; D016732:Parvovirus B19, Human; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000453:epidemiology; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D014612:Vaccines
chemical_list: D014612:Vaccines