Value of a reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction assay for Norwalk-like viruses in the investigation of institutional gastroenteritis outbreaks
Mark J. Ferson, Peter Yankos, Giulietta Pontivivo, Angela Wong, David Lee, Monica Isaacs, Fifin Intan, Christopher J. McIver and William D. Rawlinson
New South Wales Public Health Bulletin
10(11) 158 - 160
Published: 1999
Abstract
This article reports two outbreaks of gastroenteritis which occurred in nursing homes in South Eastern Sydney during November 1998 in which an assay, developed by the South Eastern Area Laboratory Services (SEALS) Enteric and Virology Laboratories, was used to confirm the aetiological agent as Norwalk-like viruses (NLVs).https://doi.org/10.1071/NB99069
© NSW Department of Health 1999
