Nosocomial epidemic outbreak of acute gastroenteritis by Norwalk-like virus

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 118, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 611-615

  González Morán, Francisco ^a,c   Civantos, Antonio Moreno ^a,b   de Mateo Ontañón, Salvador ^d   Barrasa Blanco, Alicia ^a   Valadés Rodríguez, Javier ^a   Domínguez Berjón, Felicitas ^b   Herrera Guibert, Dionisio ^a   Martínez Navarro, Ferran ^a  

^a Programa de Epidemiología Aplicada de Campo PEAC   (Spain)

^b Centro de Salud Pública del Área 2 de la Comunidad de Madrid ^*  (Spain)

^c Centro de Salud Pública de Castellón   (Spain)

^d CARLOS III INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Spain)

Author keywords

Epidemic outbreak; Norwalk virus; Viral gastroenteritis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; EATING; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAL; MENTAL DISEASE; NORWALK GASTROENTERITIS VIRUS; NURSING HOME; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICAL DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VOMITING; ACUTE DISEASE; CROSS INFECTION; GASTROENTERITIS; NOROVIRUS; SPAIN; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; MALE; NOROVIRUS; SPAIN;

EID: 0037018739     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-7753(02)72469-X     Document Type: Article

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