A Gastroenteritis Outbreak Due to Norovirus Associated with a Colorado Hotel

Journal of Environmental Health

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 13-17

  Dippold, Laura ^a   Lee, Robin ^b   Selman, Carol ^b   Monroe, Steve ^b   Henry, Chuck ^b  

^a Tri County Health Department Colorado   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GASTROENTERITIS;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD PROCESSING; FOOD SAFETY; GASTROENTERITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORWALK GASTROENTERITIS VIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX RATIO; UNITED STATES; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

COLORADO; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; HYGIENE; NOROVIRUS; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; RESTAURANTS; SANITATION; TRAVEL;

NOROVIRUS; NORWALK VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0344305417     PISSN: 00220892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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