Chronic shedders as reservoir for nosocomial transmission of norovirus

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4303-4305

  Sukhrie, Faizel H A ^a,b   Siebenga, J Joukje ^a,b   Beersma, Matthias F C ^b   Koopmans, Marion ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; NOROVIRUS INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS SHEDDING; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NOROVIRUS; VIRUS SHEDDING;

NOROVIRUS;

EID: 78049491084     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01308-10     Document Type: Article

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