Outbreak of rotavirus gastroenteritis in a nursing home, Slovenia, December 2010

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 2011, Pages

  Trop Skaza, A ^a   Beskovnik, L ^a   Zohar Cretnik, T ^a  

^a Institute of Public Health Celje   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MALAISE; MALE; NURSING HOME; ROTAVIRUS INFECTION; SLOVENIA; STOMACH PAIN; VIRAL GASTROENTERITIS; VOMITING;

EID: 79955392963     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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