Norovirus outbreak among students of a boarding school in Kluang, Johor, Malaysia

• Main Authors: Mohamad Nizam Subahir, Mohammad Saffree Jeffree, Mohd Rohaizat Hassan, Md Faizul Abd Razak, Syarifah Noor Ghulam Mohamad, Siat, Yee Fong, Kamruddin Ahmed
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: R Medicine (General); RA Public aspects of medicine
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/24669/7/Norovirus%20outbreak%20among%20students%20of%20a%20boarding%20school%20in%20Kluang%2C%20Johor%20Malaysia.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/24669/

Introduction: Norovirus (NoV) is a contagious virus causing acute gastroenteritis and is mainly responsible for diarrheal outbreak in closed settings. The aims of this study were to describe the epidemiological characteristic of an outbreak in a boarding school, to assess the extent of the outbreak...