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Quantifying the roles of vomiting, diarrhea, and residents vs. staff in norovirus transmission in U.S. nursing home outbreaks

2019-07-18

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The role of individual case characteristics, such as symptoms or demographics, in norovirus transmissibility is poorly understood. Six nursing home norovirus outbreaks occurring in South Carolina, U.S. from 2014 to 2016 were examined. We aimed to quantify the contribution of symptoms and other case characteristics in norovirus transmission using the reproduction number ( R Ei ) as an estimate of individual case...

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Literature Corpus work: 933cfa48-009b-5637-b0fc-8cb5175970f9
DOI: 10.1101/707356

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