Large multistate outbreak of norovirus gastroenteritis associated with frozen strawberries, Germany, 2012

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Bernard, H ^a   Faber, M ^a   Wilking, H ^a   Haller, S ^a,b,c   Hohle M ^a   Schielke, A ^a   Ducomble, T ^a,c,d   Siffczyk, C ^e   Merbecks, S ^f   Fricke, G ^g   Hamouda, O ^a   Stark, K ^a   Werber, D ^a   Askar, Mona ^a   Gunsenheimer Bartmeyer, Barbara ^a   Behnke, Susanne ^a   Breidenbach, Janina ^a   Fiebig, Lena ^a   Gilsdorf, Andreas ^a   Greutélaers, Benedikt ^a   Hecht, Jane ^a   Hermes, Julia ^a   Jentsch, Franziska ^a   Milde Busch, Astrid ^a   Preußel, Karina ^a   Prohl, Maximilian ^a   Remschmidt, Cornelius ^a   Ritter, Sabine ^a   Rosner, Bettina ^a   Santos Hövener, Claudia ^a   Schaade, Lars ^a   Schütze, Madlen ^a   Tolksdorf, Kristin ^a   Wetzstein, Matthias ^a   Bätzing Feigenbaum, Jörg ^h   Oppermann, Hanna ⁱ   Popp, Anke ^j   more..

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b Postgraduate Training for Applied Epidemiology PAE   (Germany)

^c European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ^*

^d EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^e State Health Authority Brandenburg   (Germany)

^f State Health Authority Saxony   (Germany)

^g Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety   (Germany)

^h State Office for Health and Social Affairs   (Germany)

ⁱ Agency for Consumer Protection of the Federal State of Saxony Anhalt   (Germany)

^j Thuringian State Authority for Consumer Protection (TLV)   (Germany)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; FOOD POISONING; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NOROVIRUS INFECTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; STRAWBERRY; VIRAL GASTROENTERITIS; VOMITING;

EID: 84894698463     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2014.19.8.20719     Document Type: Article

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