HOSPITAL OUTBREAK OF GASTROENTERITIS DUE TO NOROVIRUS IN BELGIUM
| Autor: | Patrick Goubau, Alexandra Scipioni, Maria Grazia Garrino, Eric Thiry, Monique Bodéus, B. Kabambal, V. Verbelen, Georges Daube |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
| Předmět: |
Cross Infection
Veterinary medicine Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction business.industry viruses Norovirus virus diseases Outbreak General Medicine medicine.disease_cause Virology Hospitals Disease Outbreaks Gastroenteritis Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction Belgium Virus strain medicine Humans Contact Tracing Nursing Assistant business Caliciviridae Infections |
| Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 2295-3337 1784-3286 |
| DOI: | 10.1179/acb.2004.005 |
| Popis: | We report an outbreak of gastroenteritis due to Norovirus in a care unit in a Belgian hospital involving thirty-three people. The origin of the outbreak was traced to one nursing assistant. The virus strain identifi ed by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction and electron microscopy belonged to the genogroup II. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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