An outbreak of Norwalk like virus gastroenteritis in a nursing home in Rotterdam

O Ronveaux; D Vos; A Bosman; K Brandwijk; J Vinjé; M Koopmans; R Reintjes

doi:10.2807/esm.05.05.00006-en

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An outbreak of Norwalk like virus gastroenteritis in a nursing home in Rotterdam
O Ronveaux^1,2 , D Vos³ , A Bosman³ , K Brandwijk⁴ , J Vinjé⁵ , M Koopmans⁵ , R Reintjes^1,3
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Affiliations: ¹ Department of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, RIVM, The Netherlands ² European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET) fellow ³ Municipal Health Service, Rotterdam, The Netherlands ⁴ Nursing home Rustenburg, Rotterdam, The Netherlands ⁵ Research Laboratory for Infectious Diseases, RIVM, The Netherlands

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Citation style for this article: Ronveaux O, Vos D, Bosman A, Brandwijk K, Vinjé J, Koopmans M, Reintjes R. An outbreak of Norwalk like virus gastroenteritis in a nursing home in Rotterdam. Euro Surveill. 2000;5(5):pii=6. https://doi.org/10.2807/esm.05.05.00006-en

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