Food-borne norovirus-outbreak at a military base, Germany, 2009.

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Published in BMC Infect Dis on February 17, 2010

Authors

Maria Wadl1, Kathrin Scherer, Stine Nielsen, Sabine Diedrich, Lüppo Ellerbroek, Christina Frank, Renate Gatzer, Marina Hoehne, Reimar Johne, Günter Klein, Judith Koch, Jörg Schulenburg, Uta Thielbein, Klaus Stark, Helen Bernard

Author Affiliations

1: Postgraduate Training for Applied Epidemiology, Germany. wadlm@rki.de

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