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Does spatial proximity drive norovirus transmission during outbreaks in hospitals?
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OBJECTIVE: To assess the role of spatial proximity, defined as patients sharing bays, in the spread of norovirus during outbreaks in hospitals. DESIGN: Enhanced surveillance of norovirus outbreaks between November 2009 and November 2011. METHODS: Data were gathered during 149 outbreaks of norovirus in hospital wards from five hospitals in two major cities in England serving a population of two million. We used the time between the first two cases of each outbreak to estimate the serial interv...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003060
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- BMJ Publishing Group Publisher's website
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- BMJ Open Journal website
- Publication date:
- 2013-07-13
- Acceptance date:
- 2013-06-17
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2044-6055
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- English
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- 2013-11-16
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- Harris et al
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- 2013
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- © 2013 Harris et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non commercial and is otherwise in compliance with the license.
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