The role of swimming pools in the spread of intestinal infections
Bondarenko, V.I.; Iashchenko, K.V.; Zadorozhnaia, V.I.; Bellavina, G.S.
Vrachebnoe Delo 9: 112-114
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0049-6804 PMID: 2692294 Document Number: 330651
A kindergarten swimming bath was experimentally infested with M-17 Bacillus coli. It was found that after bathing 10% of children showed Escherichia M-17 in the feces. It is concluded that presence of conditionally pathogenic microorganisms in the water of swimming baths may be considered a qualitative and quantitative criterion of epidemic risk during bathing in infected basins in case hygienic norms are not observed per person.