Multiple norovirus outbreaks among workplace canteen users in Finland, July 2006

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 402-407

  Makary, Peter ^a,b   Maunula, L ^c   Niskanen, T ^d   Kuusi, M ^a   Virtanen, M ^e   Pajunen, S ^a   Ollgren, J ^a   Tran Minh, N N ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d NATL VET AND FOOD RES INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e Department of Environmental Control ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CATERING SERVICE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; FINLAND; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PROCESSING; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; KITCHEN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NOROVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RAW FOOD; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VEGETABLE; VIRAL GASTROENTERITIS; VIRUS INFECTION; VOMITING; WORKPLACE; FEMALE; FOOD CONTROL; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD POISONING; GASTROENTERITIS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD POISONING; GASTROENTERITIS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; NOROVIRUS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VEGETABLES; WORKPLACE;

EID: 64549118329     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268808000605     Document Type: Article

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