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OUTBREAK OF CYCLOSPORIASIS AT A NAVAL BASE IN LIMA, PERU

Cyclospora cayetanensis is emerging as an important cause of food-borne diarrheal outbreaks, especially in developed regions like the United States and Europe. We describe an outbreak of cyclosporiasis in Peruvian naval recruits that we believe to be the first among a local population in a developing region.

Received March 7, 2006. Accepted for publication May 3, 2006.

Acknowledgments: The authors express their gratitude to Dr. Eric Hall and the staff of the Bacteriology Program, NMRCD.

Financial support: This work was supported by DoD-GEIS 847705 82000 25GB B0016. Dr. Gilman received support via TMRC AI051976-02—New tools to Understand and Control Endemic Parasites—Peru.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Navy, Department of Defense, nor the U.S. Government.

^* Address correspondence to David Blazes, Director, Emerging Infections Program American Embassy, Unit 3800 APO, AA 34031. E-mail: blazes{at}nmrcd.med.navy.mil

The study protocol was approved as non-human subject research by the Naval Medical Research Center Institutional Review Board (Project # 12).

Copyright: Several of the authors are military service members. This work was prepared as part of their official duties. Title 17 U.S.C. 105 provides that ‘Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government’. Title 17 U.S.C. 101 defines a U.S. Government work as a work prepared by a military service member or employee of the U.S. Government as part of that person’s official duties.

Authors’ addresses: Paola A. Torres-Slimming and Jose Quispe, Alerta-DISAMAR System Peruvian Navy; Carmen C. Mundaca, Olga Colina, David J. Bacon, and Andres G. Lescano, Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, Peru; Manuel Moran, and Andres G. Lescano, DoD-Global Emerging Infections System (GEIS). Robert H. Gilman, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205. David Blazes, Director, Emerging Infections Program American Embassy, Unit 3800 APO, AA 34031, Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, Peru; DoD-Global Emerging Infections System (GEIS); and Uniformed Services University, Telephone: 0115115623848, Fax: 0115115613042, E-mail: blazes{at}nmrcd.med.navy.mil.

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