Norovirus outbreak in a district general hospital - New strain identified

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 137, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 57-61

  Leuenberger, Samuel ^a   Widdowson, Marc Alain ^b   Feilchenfeldt, Jonas ^a   Egger, Richard ^a   Streuli, Rolf A ^a  

^a Spital Region Oberaargau   (Switzerland)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Hospital outbreak; Norovirus; Polymerase chain reaction; Strain

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISINFECTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOROVIRUS; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VOMITING;

EID: 33846880931     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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