Multiple outbreaks of a novel norovirus GII.4 linked to an infected post-symptomatic food handler

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 141, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1585-1597

  Thornley, C N ^a   Hewitt, J ^b   Perumal, L ^a   Van Gessel, S M ^a   Wong, J ^a   David, S A ^a   Rapana, J P ^a   Li, S ^a   Marshall, J C ^c   Greening, G E ^b  

^a Auckland Regional Public Health Service   (New Zealand)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Food safety; foodborne infections; hand hygiene; norovirus; outbreaks

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FOOD HANDLER; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PROCESSING; FOOD SAFETY; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; NONMEDICAL OCCUPATIONS; NOROVIRUS INFECTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VOMITING;

ADULT; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FECES; FEMALE; FOOD HANDLING; GASTROENTERITIS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEW ZEALAND; NOROVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880394667     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268813000095     Document Type: Article

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