An outbreak of acute norovirus gastroenteritis in a boarding school in Shanghai: A retrospective cohort study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Xue, Caoyi ^a,b   Fu, Yifei ^a   Zhu, Weiping ^a,b   Fei, Yi ^a   Zhu, Linying ^a   Zhang, Hong ^a,b   Pan, Lifeng ^a   Xu, Hongmei ^a,b   Wang, Yong ^a   Wang, Wenqin ^a   Sun, Qiao ^a  

^a Research Base of Key Laboratory of Surveillance and Early warning on Infectious Disease in China CDC   (China)

^b Shanghai Pudong Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

Acute gastroenteritis; Asymptomatic food handler; Norovirus; Outbreak

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHINA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLIC; COMPLICATION; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; FECES; FEMALE; FEVER; FOOD HANDLING; GASTROENTERITIS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HAND WASHING; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOROVIRUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VIROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; COLIC; DIARRHEA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FECES; FEMALE; FEVER; FOOD HANDLING; GASTROENTERITIS; GENOTYPE; HAND DISINFECTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOROVIRUS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, VIRAL; SCHOOLS;

EID: 84940758544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1092     Document Type: Article

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