Foodborne norovirus outbreak: The role of an asymptomatic food handler

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Barrabeig, Irene ^a   Rovira, Ariadna ^a   Buesa, Javier ^b   Bartolomé, Rosa ^c   Pintó, Rosa ^d   Prellezo, Hortènsia ^e   Domínguez, Àngela ^d,f  

^a GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e Department of Health of the Generalitat of Catalonia   (Spain)

^f CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD POISONING; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; INTERVIEW; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NAUSEA; NOROVIRUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS STRAIN; VOMITING; ADOLESCENT; CALICIVIRUS INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES; FOOD CONTROL; GASTROENTERITIS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; SPAIN; VIROLOGY;

VIRUS RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FECES; FEMALE; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOODBORNE DISEASES; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOROVIRUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956544805     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-269     Document Type: Article

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