Title
Outbreak of norovirus group II in a military training center, Peru 2013
Other title
Brote de infección por norovirus del grupo II en un centro de entrenamiento militar, Perú 2013
Date Issued
01 January 2015
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Soto G.
Loayza L.
Quispe J.
Wong J.
Bausch D.G.
Centro de Investigación de Enfermedades Tropicales de la Marina de EE. UU
Centro Médico Naval “Cirujano Mayor Santiago Távara”
Centro de Investigación de Enfermedades Tropicales de la Marina de EE. UU
Centro de Investigación de Enfermedades Tropicales de la Marina de EE. UU
Publisher(s)
Instituto Nacional de Salud
Abstract
We report an outbreak of norovirus (NoV) which occurred at a military training center in Peru. Thirteen stool samples that were taken from initial cases turned out positive for NoV GII by RT-PCR. A case-control study was performed to determine factors associated with infection.164 probable cases (45.2% clinical attack rate) were identified. The only factor associated with infection was “having shared room with a case” (ORa = 1.7; 95% CI 1.1 to 2.7).Epidemiological findings suggest that the virus was spread person to person. Future investigations of outbreaks of diarrhea in Peru should consider the NoV as an etiologic agent.
Start page
87
End page
92
Volume
32
Issue
1
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Epidemiología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84930619291
PubMed ID
Source
Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Publica
ISSN of the container
17264634
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus