The purpose of this article was to review the existing literature to define those groups of
individuals who would be at the greatest risk of serious illness and mortality from water and …

Outbreaks of Norwalk gastroenteritis, which may involve persons of all ages, occur during all
seasons and in various locations. Waterborne, foodborne, and person-to-person modes of …

Abstract Background/Aims: Acute diarrhea after marrow transplant is usually ascribed to
acute graft-vs.-host disease (GVHD) or infection, with a reported 40%–50% incidence of …

Our understanding of the epidemiology of astrovirus-associated gastroenteritis has changed
markedly with each improvement in detection method. In early surveys based on …

Norwalk virus infection is the epidemiologic prototype for outbreaks of food-borne and
waterborne gastroenteritis. Around the world, Norwalk virus and Norwalk-like viruses appear …

* Corresponding author. t Present address: New England Nuclear/DuPont Infectious Dis-
ease Group, 331 Treble Cove Rd., North Billerica, MA 01862. isolated cytopathic …

Each year, infectious gastroenteritis causes greater than 210,000 children in the United
States to be hospitalized and 4-10 million children to die worldwide. Since the mid-1970s …

We carried out a review of published, peer-reviewed articles to assess the evidence for
effectiveness of control measures during norovirus outbreaks in enclosed settings. There …

Results of serotyping on 291 astrovirus-positive stools collected between 1976 and 1992
showed that about two-thirds (64.9%) were serotype 1. Infections were more frequent in the …

An extensive outbeak of acute gastroenteritis of unknown etiology occurred at Snow
Mountain, Colorado, in December 1976. Virus-like particles, 27 nm in diameter, were …