Using environmental health officers’ opinions to inform the source attribution of enteric disease: further analysis of the “most likely source of infection”

Table 3 Summary of endemic cases excluded and included in the MLSI analysis – Subset A

	Excluded MLSI cases			Included MLSI cases^*				Total endemic	% of total endemic
Disease	Missing	Immigration + international travel	Unknown	Unknown plus text^†	Known	Total included	% of total included
Campylobacteriosis	1	0	100	20	183	203	46.7	304	45.6
Cryptosporidiosis	0	0	4	0	7	7	1.6	11	1.6
Giardiasis	0	10	21	2	42	44	10.1	75	11.2
Listeriosis	0	0	2	0	2	2	0.5	4	0.6
Salmonellosis	1	2	52	4	127	131	30.1	186	27.9
Shigellosis	0	1	3	0	8	8	1.8	12	1.8
VTEC infection	0	1	5	0	21	21	4.8	27	4.0
Yersiniosis	0	0	29	1	18	19	4.4	48	7.2
Total	2	14	216	27	408	435		667
% of total endemic	0.3	2.1	32.4	4.0	61.2	65.2			100.0

^*Water, Animal, Food, Food safety practices, Environmental, Occupational, Unpasteurized, Person-to-person, Other and, Domestic travel classifications.
^†Entered as ‘unknown’ but also included exposure information.

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