Outbreak of acute gastroenteritis caused by adenovirus type 41 in a kindergarten

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 139, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1672-1675

  Gonalves G ^a   Gouveia, E ^b   Mesquita, J R ^a   Almeida, A ^c   Ribeiro, A ^c   R cha Pereira, J ^a   Sao Jose Nascimento M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b Unidade de Saúde Pública   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Adenoviruses; gastroenteritis; outbreaks

Indexed keywords

ROTAVIRUS VACCINE;

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ADENOVIRUS; ADENOVIRUS 41; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; INFECTION CONTROL; KINDERGARTEN; MALE; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORTUGAL; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTION; SCREENING TEST; VACCINATION; VIRAL GASTROENTERITIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADENOVIRUS INFECTIONS, HUMAN; ADENOVIRUSES, HUMAN; ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PORTUGAL; ROTAVIRUS VACCINES; SCHOOLS; STUDENTS;

EID: 80053567620     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268810002803     Document Type: Article

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