Norovirus Outbreak in a Kindergarten: Human to Human Transmission among Children

An outbreak of acute gastroenteritis was reported from a kindergarten on January 5, 2018 and investigation was conducted. A case was defined as a kindergartener presented with vomiting or diarrhea twice a day between January 1 and January 5, 2018. All kindergarteners were interviewed to identify the...

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Autores principales: Kim, Seowon, Kim, Young Woo, Ryu, Sukhyun, Kim, Jin Won
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases and Korean Society for Chemotherapy 2019
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6609739/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31270996
http://dx.doi.org/10.3947/ic.2019.51.2.171
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description An outbreak of acute gastroenteritis was reported from a kindergarten on January 5, 2018 and investigation was conducted. A case was defined as a kindergartener presented with vomiting or diarrhea twice a day between January 1 and January 5, 2018. All kindergarteners were interviewed to identify the factor associated with case development. Fifteen (31.3%) children of a total of 48 were identified as cases, and four were confirmed to be Group II, Norovirus positive. In our study, based on the pattern of epidemic curve and different attack rate by classroom in a kindergarten, Norovirus was likely transmitted from human to human.
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spelling pubmed-66097392019-07-11 Norovirus Outbreak in a Kindergarten: Human to Human Transmission among Children Kim, Seowon Kim, Young Woo Ryu, Sukhyun Kim, Jin Won Infect Chemother Brief Communication An outbreak of acute gastroenteritis was reported from a kindergarten on January 5, 2018 and investigation was conducted. A case was defined as a kindergartener presented with vomiting or diarrhea twice a day between January 1 and January 5, 2018. All kindergarteners were interviewed to identify the factor associated with case development. Fifteen (31.3%) children of a total of 48 were identified as cases, and four were confirmed to be Group II, Norovirus positive. In our study, based on the pattern of epidemic curve and different attack rate by classroom in a kindergarten, Norovirus was likely transmitted from human to human. The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases and Korean Society for Chemotherapy 2019-06 2019-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6609739/ /pubmed/31270996 http://dx.doi.org/10.3947/ic.2019.51.2.171 Text en Copyright © 2019 by The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases and Korean Society for Antimicrobial Therapy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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