Food-borne outbreak of norovirus infection in a French military parachuting unit, april 2011

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 16, Issue 30, 2011, Pages 1-

  Mayet, A ^a   Andreo V ^b   Bedubourg G ^a   Victorion, S ^c   Plantec, J Y ^c   Soullie B ^d   Meynard, J B ^a   Dedieu, J J ^b   Polveche P Y ^e   Migliani, R ^a  

^a SERVICE D ENDOCRINOLOGIE   (France)

^b Military Health Service   (France)

^c School of Airborne Troops   (France)

^d HÔPITAL D'INSTRUCTION DES ARMÉES ROBERT PICQUÉ   (France)

^e Regional Directorate of the Military Health Service   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ARMY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEVER; FOOD POISONING; FRANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LIQUID FECES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SERVICE; NAUSEA; NOROVIRUS; PASTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; VIRUS INFECTION; VOMITING; CALICIVIRUS INFECTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; GENETICS; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOLDIER; VIROLOGY;

CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FECES; FEMALE; FOODBORNE DISEASES; FRANCE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NOROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 79961153695     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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