Noroviruses as a cause of traveler's diarrhea among students from the United States visiting Mexico.
Stool specimens from 124 international travelers with acute diarrhea were tested for the presence of enteropathogens. Noroviruses (NoVs) were the second most commonly identified enteric pathogen in diarrheal stool samples (21/124, 17%), exceeded only by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (50/106, 47%). This study indicates that NoV is an underappreciated cause of traveler's diarrhea.
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GwangPyo
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Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Seoul National University, 28 Yunkeun-Dong, Chongro-Ku, Seoul 110-799, South Korea. gko@snu.ac.kr.
Garcia
Coralith
C
Jiang
Zhi-Dong
ZD
Okhuysen
Pablo C
PC
Belkind-Gerson
Jaime
J
Glass
Roger I
RI
DuPont
Herbert L
HL
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D017250:Caliciviridae Infections / Q000209:etiology / Q000821:virology*; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000209:etiology* / Q000821:virology*; D005243:Feces / Q000821:virology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico; D008875:Middle Aged; D029322:Norovirus / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D010802:Phylogeny; D013334:Students; D014195:Travel; D014481:United States