Estimating the burden of care home gastroenteritis outbreaks in England, 2014-2016.
Thomas InnsHelen E CloughJohn P HarrisRoberto VivancosNatalie AdamsSarah J O'BrienPublished in: BMC infectious diseases (2019)
This estimated care home gastroenteritis burden in England indicates that current surveillance substantially underestimates the number of outbreaks, by almost half. Improving this surveillance could provide better epidemiological knowledge of the burden of norovirus to inform public health policy, particularly with the advent of norovirus vaccines.