A community outbreak of food-borne small round-structured virus gastroenteritis caused by a contaminated water supply

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 145-154

  Brugha, R ^a   Vipond, I B ^b   Evans, M R ^c   Sandifer, Q D ^c   Roberts, R J ^a   Salmon, R L ^a   Caul, E O ^b   Mukerjee, A K ^d  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b Public Health Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

^c S Glamorgan Hlth Auth Temple P   (United Kingdom)

^d Department of Public Health   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; WATER;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; EMPLOYEE; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD POISONING; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWALK VIRUS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEROTYPING; WALES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0032999832     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268898001885     Document Type: Article

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