Lessons learned from a norovirus outbreak in a locked pediatric inpatient psychiatric unit

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 841-843

  Weber, David J ^a,b,e   Sickbert Bennett, Emily E ^a   Vinjé, Jan ^c   Brown, Vickie M ^a   MacFarquhar, Jennifer K ^b   Engel, Jeffrey P ^d   Rutala, William A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITALS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^d North Carolina Division of Public Health   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MEAL; MEDICAL STAFF; NOROVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT; VIRUS INFECTION;

CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CHILD; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GASTROENTERITIS; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MENTAL DISORDERS; NOROVIRUS; NORTH CAROLINA; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; SECURITY MEASURES;

EID: 27144501191     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502504     Document Type: Article

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