A decade of norovirus disease risk among older adults in upper-middle and high income countries: A systematic review

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Lindsay, Lisa ^a   Wolter, Joanne ^a   De Coster, Ilse ^b   Van Damme, Pierre ^b   Verstraeten, Thomas ^a  

^a P95 Pharmacovigilance and Epidemiology Services ^*  (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Disease burden; Epidemiology; Gastroenteritis; Norovirus; Older adults; Risk

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EMERGENCY CARE; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; GASTROENTERITIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH STATISTICS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; LENGTH OF STAY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; NOROVIRUS INFECTION; OUTPATIENT CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNITED STATES; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; FACTUAL DATABASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; VIROLOGY;

AGED; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GASTROENTERITIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; NOROVIRUS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84944388972     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12879-015-1168-5     Document Type: Article

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