title: Long-Term Predictors of Recurrent Laboratory-Confirmed Giardiasis: A 10-Year National Surveillance Study.
abstract: During 2002 to 2011, 275 of 6828 children with giardiasis in Israel were reported with recurrent, over 6 months apart, episodes. The only significant multivariable-adjusted risk predictor of a recurrent episode was non-Jewish ethnicity (hazard ratio, 4.61 [95% confidence interval, 3.32-6.40]; P < .001), also accompanied by significant interaction with lower maternal education.
authors.affiliation: Division of Epidemiology.
authors.forename: Eran
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kopel
authors.affiliation: Public Health Services, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva.
authors.forename: Itamar
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Grotto
authors.affiliation: Central Public Health Laboratories, Ministry of Health Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Hebrew University Hadassah Faculty of Medicine.
authors.forename: Tamar
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Grossman
authors.affiliation: Division of Information and Computing, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: Ziona
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Haklai
authors.affiliation: Central Public Health Laboratories, Ministry of Health Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Hebrew University Hadassah Faculty of Medicine.
authors.forename: Esther
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Marva
authors.affiliation: Division of Epidemiology Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Hebrew University Hadassah Faculty of Medicine.
authors.forename: Emilia
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Anis
keywords: Giardia lambia; epidemiology; ethnicity; pediatric; socioeconomic status.