Incidence of Medically-Attended Norovirus-Associated Acute Gastroenteritis in Four Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center Populations in the United States, 2011-2012

Scott P. Grytdal; David Rimland; S. Hannah Shirley; Maria C. Rodriguez-Barradas; Matthew Bidwell Goetz; Sheldon T. Brown; Cynthia Lucero-Obusan; Mark Holodniy; Christopher Graber; Umesh Parashar; Jan Vinjé; Ben Lopman

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0126733

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Incidence of Medically-Attended Norovirus-Associated Acute Gastroenteritis in Four Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center Populations in the United States, 2011-2012

Scott P. Grytdal ,

* E-mail: spgrytdal@cdc.gov

Affiliation Division of Viral Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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David Rimland,

Affiliation Atlanta VA Medical Center and Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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S. Hannah Shirley,

Affiliations Division of Viral Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Atlanta Research and Education Foundation, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America
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Maria C. Rodriguez-Barradas,

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Section, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center and Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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Matthew Bidwell Goetz,

Affiliation VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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Sheldon T. Brown,

Affiliation James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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Cynthia Lucero-Obusan,

Affiliation VA Office of Public Health Washington, D.C./Palo Alto, California, United States of America
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Mark Holodniy,

Affiliations VA Office of Public Health Washington, D.C./Palo Alto, California, United States of America, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
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Christopher Graber,

Affiliation VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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Umesh Parashar,

Affiliation Division of Viral Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Jan Vinjé,

Affiliation Division of Viral Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Ben Lopman

Affiliation Division of Viral Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Incidence of Medically-Attended Norovirus-Associated Acute Gastroenteritis in Four Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center Populations in the United States, 2011-2012

Scott P. Grytdal,
David Rimland,
S. Hannah Shirley,
Maria C. Rodriguez-Barradas,
Matthew Bidwell Goetz,
Sheldon T. Brown,
Cynthia Lucero-Obusan,
Mark Holodniy,
Christopher Graber,
Umesh Parashar

Published: May 21, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126733

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