Acute gastroenteritis outbreaks associated with ground-waterborne norovirus in South Korea during 2008-2012

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 142, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2604-2609

  Cho, H G ^a,b   Lee, S G ^c   Kim, W H ^a   Lee, J S ^d   Park, P H ^a   Cheon, D S ^e   Jheong, W H ^f   Jho, E H ^b   Lee, J B ^a   Paik, S Y ^g  

^a Gyeonggi Province Institute of Health and Environment   (South Korea)

^b University of Seoul   (South Korea)

^c Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

^d Ministry of Food and Drug Safety   (South Korea)

^e Korea National Institute of Health   (South Korea)

^f National Institute of Environmental Research   (South Korea)

^g The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Gastroenteritis; groundwater; norovirus

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER;

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; NOROVIRUS INFECTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTH KOREA; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; WATER SAMPLING; ACUTE DISEASE; BRASSICA; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NOROVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; VIROLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; BRASSICA; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOROVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84911952624     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268814000247     Document Type: Article

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