An Outbreak of Norwalk Like Virus Gastroenteritis in a Nursing Home in Rotterdam

Overview

Journal Euro Surveill

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2003 Mar 13

PMID 12631859

Citations 2

Authors

O Ronveaux

D Vos

A Bosman

K Brandwijk

J Vinje

M Koopmans

R Reintjes

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Abstract

Sixty-two per cent of elderly and disabled residents of a Dutch nursing home (74/120) and 32% of staff (33/102) became ill in an outbreak of Norwalk-like viral gastroenteritis. The outbreak spread from person to person was supported by temporal clustering

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