A New Zealand outbreak of norovirus gastroenteritis linked to the consumption of imported raw Korean oysters

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 120, Issue 1264, 2007, Pages

  Simmons, Greg ^a   Garbutt, Claire ^a   Hewitt, Joanne ^b   Greening, Gail ^b  

^a Auckland Regional Public Health Service   (New Zealand)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ARTICLE; BEVERAGE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CATERING SERVICE; CHILL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOKING; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD PACKAGING; FOOD SAFETY; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NAUSEA; NEW ZEALAND; NOROVIRUS; OYSTER; RAW FOOD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRAL GASTROENTERITIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VOMITING; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; FECES; FOOD CONTROL; GASTROENTERITIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KOREA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALMON; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FECES; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; KOREA; NEW ZEALAND; NOROVIRUS; OSTREIDAE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALMON;

EID: 37249046423     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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