The role of environmental contamination with small round structured viruses in a hospital outbreak investigated by reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction assay

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 39-45

  Green, J ^a   Wright, P A ^b   Gallimore, C I ^a   Mitchell, O ^b   Morgan Capner, P ^b   Brown, D W G ^a  

^a CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL PRESTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental swabs; Hospital outbreak; RT PCR; SRSV; Ward contamination

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FECES ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MALAISE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THROAT CULTURE; TIME; VIRUS INFECTION; VOMITING;

EID: 0031779353     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0195-6701(98)90241-9     Document Type: Article

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