Norovirus gastroenteritis outbreak by person to person transmision in a nursing home;Brote de Norovirus de transmisión persona a persona en una residencia asistida

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 127, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 538-541

  Godoy, Pere ^a,b   Artigues, Antoni ^a,b   Bartolomé, Rosa ^c   Domínguez, Angela ^a   Plasència, Antoni ^a  

^a GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

Disease outbreak; Epidemiology; Norovirus; Norwalk like virus; Nursing home; Person to person transmision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FECES ANALYSIS; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; GASTROENTERITIS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NOROVIRUS; NURSING HOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTOR; SPAIN; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 33751230795     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0025-7753(06)72322-3     Document Type: Article

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