Figure 9.3.1: Enteric infections by year
Number of enteric infections reported by year, Middlesex-London, 2005 to 2018
Source:
Public Health Ontario Infectious Diseases Query: Middlesex-London Health Unit: Case counts and crude rates of reportable diseases by year. Toronto ON: Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion; 2019 May 1 [cited 2019 May 7].Note:
* VTEC = Verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (E. coli), including hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS)
In the 14-year period from 2005 to 2018, campylobacteriosis was the most common enteric infection reported, followed by salmonellosis. Together, reported cases of these two infections were two to four times greater than the number of all other enteric infections combined.