Multiple outbreaks of gastroenteritis due to a single strain of genotype GII/4 norovirus in Kobe, Japan, 2006: Risk factors for norovirus spread in health care settings

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 419-422

  Iijima, Yoshio ^a   Tanaka, Shinobu ^a   Ohishi, Hideaki ^a  

^a KOBE INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BENZALKONIUM CHLORIDE; DISINFECTANT AGENT;

ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISINFECTION; EPIDEMIC; GASTROENTERITIS; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NURSING HOME; RISK FACTOR; SEASHORE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS STRAIN; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS INFECTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VIROLOGY;

CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GASTROENTERITIS; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOROVIRUS; NURSING HOMES; RISK FACTORS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 54449092218     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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