Estimating the under-reporting of norovirus illness in Germany utilizing enhanced awareness of diarrhoea during a large outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O104: H4 in 2011 - a time series analysis

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Bernard, Helen ^a   Werber, Dirk ^a   Höhle, Michael ^a,b  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Disease notification; Epidemiology; Gastroenteritis; Norovirus; Population surveillance; Public health; Time series analysis; Under reporting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHILD; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOROVIRUS INFECTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX RATIO; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GASTROENTERITIS; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; NEWBORN; NOROVIRUS;

SHIGA TOXIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; GERMANY; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOROVIRUS; SHIGA TOXIN; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84895117352     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-14-116     Document Type: Article

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