| Am J Public Health. 1987 March; 77(3): 291–295. | PMCID: PMC1646905 |
Norwalk-like gastroenteritis epidemic in a Toronto hospital. W D Leers, G Kasupski, R Fralick, S Wartman, J Garcia, and W Gary Abstract An epidemic of gastroenteritis in a teaching hospital affected 57 patients and 69 staff over a 26-day period. The index case was a patient admitted with acute abdominal pain and diarrhea two days prior to the outbreak. The epidemic curve indicated person-to-person transmission. The incubation period, duration and types of symptoms were typical of Norwalk gastroenteritis, and Norwalk-like virus particles, serologically different from the prototype Norwalk virus strain, were observed in 17 of 20 fecal specimens examined by immune-electron microscopy. Full text Full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. Get a printable copy (PDF file) of the complete article (1.2M), or click on a page image below to browse page by page. Links to PubMed are also available for Selected References. Images in this article Click on the image to see a larger version. These references are in PubMed. This may not be the complete list of references from this article. - Greenberg, HB; Valdesuso, J; Yolken, RH; Gangarosa, E; Gary, W; Wyatt, RG; Konno, T; Suzuki, H; Chanock, RM; Kapikian, AZ. Role of Norwalk virus in outbreaks of nonbacterial gastroenteritis. J Infect Dis. 1979 May;139(5):564–568. [PubMed]
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