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Volume 20, Number 7—July 2014

Research

Norovirus Epidemiology in Community and Health Care Settings and Association with Patient Age, Denmark

Kristina T. FranckComments to Author , Jannik Fonager, Annette K. Ersbøll, and Blenda Böttiger
Author affiliations: Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark (K. T. Franck, J. Fonager, B. Böttiger); University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark (K. T. Franck); University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen (A. K. Ersbøll); Lund University, Malmö, Sweden (B. Böttiger)

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Distribution of norovirus genotypes by patient age and setting for 1,566 patients positive for norovirus, Denmark, 2006–2010. Only 1 patient from each general practice or outpatient clinic (n = 781 patients) and ward (n = 785 patients) within a calendar month were included (foodborne outbreak patients were not included). Inpatients and patients from nursing homes were grouped as patients from health care settings. Genogroup I (GI), blue; GII.P21, gold; GII.3, orange; GII.4 or GII.P4, red; GII.6,

Figure 2. Distribution of norovirus genotypes by patient age and setting for 1,566 patients positive for norovirus, Denmark, 2006–2010Only 1 patient from each general practice or outpatient clinic (n = 781 patients) and ward (n = 785 patients) within a calendar month were included (foodborne outbreak patients were not included)Inpatients and patients from nursing homes were grouped as patients from health care settingsGenogroup I (GI), blue; GII.P21, gold; GII.3, orange; GII.4 or GII.P4, red; GII.6, purple; GII.P7, pink; GII.7, brown; all other genogroup II, greenC, community; H, health care.

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