Structured surveillance of infectious intestinal disease in pre-school children in the community: "The Nappy Study"

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 137, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 922-931

  Iturriza Gómara, Miren ^a   Elliot, A J ^b   Dockery, C ^a   Fleming, D M ^b   Gray, J J ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Burden of disease; Children; Gastroenteritis; General practice

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CHILD; COMMUNITY CARE; DIAPER; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; ROTAVIRUS; SAPOVIRUS; SEASONAL VARIATION; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TYPING; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DIARRHEA; ENTEROPATHY; FECES; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; TIME; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DIARRHEA; ENGLAND; FECES; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TIME FACTORS; VIRUS DISEASES; WALES;

EID: 67650474537     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268808001556     Document Type: Article

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