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Epidemiological and molecular analysis of a waterborne outbreak of norovirus GII.4.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Dec 2012
Zhou X, Li H, Sun L, Mo Y, Chen S, Wu X, Liang J, Zheng H, Ke C, Varma J K, Klena J D, Chen Q, Zou L, Yang X
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Contaminated water is one of the main sources of norovirus (NoV) gastroenteritis outbreaks globally. Waterborne NoV outbreaks are infrequently attributed to GII.4 NoV. In September 2009, a NoV outbreak affected a small school in Guangdong Province, China. Epidemiological investigations indicated that household use water, supplied by a well, was the probable source (relative risk 1·9). NoV nucleic acid material in...
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