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Article: Enteric Viruses in a Large Waterborne Outbreak of Acute Gastroenteritis in Finland
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ABSTRACT: In Nokia city about 450,000l of treated sewage water was for 2days allowed to run into the drinking water supplies of the city due to a personal error of one employee. Within the next 5weeks about 1,000 people sought care at the municipal health centre or regional hospital because of gastroenteritis. Here we report the results of viral analyses performed by gene amplification assays from the earliest water and sewage samples as well as from close to 300 patient samples. The contaminating treated sewage was shown to harbour several enteric viruses known to cause acute gastroenteritis. Likewise, the drinking water sample was positive for noro-, astro-, rota-, entero- and adenoviruses. Noroviruses were also found in 29.8% of stool samples from affected patients, while astro-, adeno-, rota- and enteroviruses were detected in 19.7, 18.2, 7.5 and 3.7% of the specimens, respectively.Food and Environmental Virology 04/2012; 1(1):31-36. · 1.56 Impact Factor
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2012
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National Public Health Institute
Helsinki, Province of Southern Finland, Finland
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