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Relationship between shipping amounts of olive flounder aquacultured from Jejudo and the reported events of acute food poisoning by Kudoa septempunctata in 2015, South Korea: an ecological study
Jong-Myon Bae
Epidemiol Health. 2017;39:e2017041.   Published online September 6, 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4178/epih.e2017041
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Abstract
OBJECTIVES
Confirmation of <i>Kudoa septempunctata</i> (<i>K. septempunctata</i>) as the pathogenic agent causing acute food poisoning remains under debate owing to inconsistencies in the reproducibility of experimental evidence. Higher intake of olive flounder infected with <i>K. septempunctata</i> would result in increased diagnosis of food poisoning by <i>K. septempunctata</i>, if the latter was one of the causal agents of acute food poisoning. The aim was to evaluate the relationship between the shipping amount of olive flounder aquacultured from Jejudo and the incidence of <i>K. septempunctata</i> food poisoning in 2015, Korea.
METHODS
Data of shipping amounts between March 2014 and February 2016 and of monthly reported events of <i>Kudoa</i> food poisoning were taken from Jejudo Fish-Culture Fisheries Cooperatives and Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, respectively. Non-parametric correlation analyses were conducted.
RESULTS
Shipping amounts indicated the seasonal changes according to variation of consumption. Spearman’s rho and Kendall’s tau-a between the monthly shipping amounts and the reported events in 2015 were 0.39 (p=0.21) and 0.27 (p=0.20), respectively.
CONCLUSIONS
An independent relationship was noted between the shipping amount and the reported events, which contrasted with the claim that the virulence of <i>K. septempunctata</i> caused acute food poisoning.
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질병관리본부가 보고한 2015년도 쿠도아 식중독 발생 사례의 월별 분포와, 같은 기간에 제주도 수산협동조합이 국내 시장에 제공한 출하량 간의 상관성 (correlation)을 알아보았을 때, 유의한 관련성이 없었다. 이는 칠성 쿠도아충이 급성식중독을 일으킨다는 주장을 의심케 하는 근거의 하나이다.

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