Lessons Learned From a Norovirus Outbreak in a Locked Pediatric Inpatient Psychiatric Unit
- 1 October 2005
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
- Vol. 26 (10) , 841-843
- https://doi.org/10.1086/502504
Abstract
We report an outbreak of norovirus in a locked pediatric inpatient psychiatric unit with attack rates of 75% among 4 patients and 26% among 38 staff. Factors contributing to the outbreak included environmental contamination, close staff-patient contact including sharing meals, and inability to confine the index patient with the use of contact precautions.Keywords
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