An outbreak of norovirus gastroenteritis associated with a secondary water supply system in a factory in south China

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Li, Yuan ^a   Guo, Hongxiong ^b   Xu, Zhenghui ^c   Zhou, Xiaotao ^a   Zhang, Hailong ^a   Zhang, Lijie ^a   Miao, Jing ^d   Pan, Yi ^e  

^a SHENZHEN CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b JIANGSU PROVINCIAL CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^c Department of Comprehensive Prevention and Control   (China)

^d CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute gastroenteritis; Norovirus; Outbreak; Secondary water supply system

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHINA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIARRHEA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NOROVIRUS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD; STATISTICS; VIROLOGY; WATER SUPPLY;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; DIARRHEA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; MALE; NOROVIRUS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84875355651     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-283     Document Type: Article

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