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==Risk Factors== | ==Risk Factors== | ||
* Shellfish and salad ingredients are the foods most often implicated in outbreaks | The following factors increase the risk of contracting norovirus, particularly during outbreaks: | ||
* Poor food-handling hygiene | |||
* Poor hand hygiene | |||
* Shared food | |||
* Close contact with person with recent or current history of norovirus infection. | |||
* Ingestion of raw or insufficiently steamed shellfish and raw vegetables (Shellfish and salad ingredients are the foods most often implicated in outbreaks) | |||
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|author=Parashar UD, Monroe SS | |author=Parashar UD, Monroe SS | ||
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}}</ref> | }}</ref><ref name="pmid14720397">{{cite journal| author=de Wit MA, Koopmans MP, van Duynhoven YT| title=Risk factors for norovirus, Sapporo-like virus, and group A rotavirus gastroenteritis. | journal=Emerg Infect Dis | year= 2003 | volume= 9 | issue= 12 | pages= 1563-70 | pmid=14720397 | doi=10.3201/eid0912.020076 | pmc=PMC3034344 | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=14720397 }} </ref> | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Risk Factors
The following factors increase the risk of contracting norovirus, particularly during outbreaks:
- Poor food-handling hygiene
- Poor hand hygiene
- Shared food
- Close contact with person with recent or current history of norovirus infection.
- Ingestion of raw or insufficiently steamed shellfish and raw vegetables (Shellfish and salad ingredients are the foods most often implicated in outbreaks)
References
- ↑ Parashar UD, Monroe SS (2001). ""Norwalk-like viruses" as a cause of foodborne disease outbreaks". Rev. Med. Virol. 11 (4): 243–52. doi:10.1002/rmv.321. PMID 11479930.
- ↑ de Wit MA, Koopmans MP, van Duynhoven YT (2003). "Risk factors for norovirus, Sapporo-like virus, and group A rotavirus gastroenteritis". Emerg Infect Dis. 9 (12): 1563–70. doi:10.3201/eid0912.020076. PMC 3034344. PMID 14720397.