Incidence of Medically-Attended Norovirus-Associated Acute Gastroenteritis in Four Veteran's Affairs Medical Center Populations in the United States, 2011-2012.

An estimated 179 million acute gastroenteritis (AGE) illnesses occur annually in the United States. The role of noroviruses in hospital-related AGE has not been well-documented in the U. S. We estimated the population incidence of community- acquired outpatient and inpatient norovirus AGE encounters...

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Main Authors: Scott P Grytdal, David Rimland, S Hannah Shirley, Maria C Rodriguez-Barradas, Matthew Bidwell Goetz, Sheldon T Brown, Cynthia Lucero-Obusan, Mark Holodniy, Christopher Graber, Umesh Parashar, Jan Vinjé, Ben Lopman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4440768?pdf=render