Norovirus outbreak associated with undercooked oysters and secondary household transmission

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 276-282

  Alfano Sobsey, E ^a   Sweat, D ^b   Hall, A ^c   Breedlove, F ^d   Rodriguez, R ^e   Greene, S ^b   Pierce, A ^d   Sobsey, M ^e   Davies, M ^b   Ledford, S L ^a  

^a Wake County Human Services   (United States)

^b North Carolina Division of Public Health   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d Wake County Department of Environmental Services   (United States)

^e IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Food safety; foodborne infections; Norwalk agent and related viruses

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CALICIVIRUS INFECTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CATERING SERVICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOKING; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD INTAKE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; OYSTER; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UNITED STATES; VIRAL GASTROENTERITIS; VIRUS INACTIVATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; COOKING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; MALE; NOROVIRUS; NORTH CAROLINA; OSTREIDAE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SHELLFISH;

EID: 84455203085     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268811000665     Document Type: Article

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