Electronic outbreak surveillance in Germany: a first evaluation for nosocomial norovirus outbreaks.

BACKGROUND: In Germany, surveillance for infectious disease outbreaks is integrated into an electronic surveillance system. For 2007, the national surveillance database contains case-based information on 201,224 norovirus cases, three-quarters of which are linked to outbreaks. We evaluated the data...

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Main Authors: Anja M Hauri, Hans-Jürgen Westbrock, Herman Claus, Steffen Geis, Siegfried Giernat, Michael Forssbohm, Helmut Uphoff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3050882?pdf=render