An outbreak of norovirus infection in a long-term-care unit in Spain

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 259-262

  Navarro, Gemma ^a,d   Sala, Rosa M ^b   Segura, Ferran ^a   Arias, César ^b   Anton, Esperanza ^a   Varela, Pilar ^a   Peña, Pilar ^a   Llovet, Teresa ^c   Sanfeliu, Isabel ^a   Canals, Maria ^a   Serrate, Guadalupe ^a   Nogueras, Antonio ^a  

^a Hospital Universitari Parc Taulí   (Spain)

^b Epidemiol Surveillance U Ctrl Reg   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

^d Unitat d'Epidemiologia   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CALICIVIRUS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; ENTERITIS; EPIDEMIC; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; FEVER; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INCUBATION TIME; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; NOROVIRUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROTAVIRUS; SPAIN; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VOMITING;

CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; NOROVIRUS; SPAIN;

EID: 20144389683     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502536     Document Type: Article

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