JAMDA
Volume 11, Issue 8 , Pages 592-597 , October 2010

Residents had an Increasing Risk of Norovirus Gastroenteritis Infection Than Health Care Workers During an Outbreak in a Nursing Home

  • Li-Chu Yang, RN

      Affiliations

    • Infection Control Committee, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Ping-Cherng Chiang, MD

      Affiliations

    • Infection Control Committee, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Kwei-Shan Tao-Yuan, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Tzu-Hsin Huang, RN

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nursing, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Su-Fen Chi, RN

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nursing, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Yueh-Pi Chiu, RN

      Affiliations

    • Infection Control Committee, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Chun-Sui Lin, RN

      Affiliations

    • Infection Control Committee, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Yen-Fang Chou, RN

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nursing, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Su-Chu Hsu, RN

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nursing, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Xiu-Se Zhang, RN

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nursing, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Chung-Guei Huang, BA

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Virology Lab, Department of Clinical Pathology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Chen-Yi Kao, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Kwei-Shan Tao-Yuan, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Chih-Ming Lin, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Kwei-Shan Tao-Yuan, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Chih-Ming Lin, MD, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, 199 Tun-Hwa North Road, Taipei 105, Taiwan.

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 The authors have no conflicts of interest.

PII: S1525-8610(09)00544-1

doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2009.12.089

JAMDA
Volume 11, Issue 8 , Pages 592-597 , October 2010

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