Norovirus outbreak in an elementary school - District of Columbia, February 2007

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 56, Issue 51-52, 2008, Pages 1340-1343

  Diggs, R ^a   Diallo, A ^a   Kan, H ^a   Glymph, C ^a   Furness, B W ^a   Chai, S J ^b  

^a District of Columbia Department of Health   (United States)

^b CDC ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER; DISINFECTION; EPIDEMIC; EQUIPMENT; FOMITE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NOROVIRUS; SCHOOL; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; COMPUTERS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISINFECTION; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FOMITES; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; NOROVIRUS; SCHOOLS;

EID: 38049115895     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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