What is the treatment for norovirus infection? How can norovirus infection be prevented? The following recommendations may reduce the risk of acquiring or spreading the infection: Wash hands thoroughly after each toilet visit and before and after preparing food. People who experience nausea, vomiting or diarrhea should not attend school or work and should not handle food for others while ill.
Avoid drinking untreated water. Cook shellfish thoroughly before eating. Revised: October Department of Health About Mary T. Bassett, M. Your browser does not support iFrames. Most often, it's a symptom of another illness — usually a viral infection such as a cold or the flu influenza. Most sore throat germs are transmitted through direct contact.
For example, a sick child touches a toy. Another child in the daycare handles the same toy, picking up the germs, which are eventually transferred from the hands to the mouth or nose.
Pinworms Pinworms are small, white worms that live in the intestines. They cause intense itching when the female pinworm comes out of the rectum to lay eggs around the anus. Pinworms are highly contagious! Bed linens, clothing, carpets, etc. The infected person's hands will, invariably, be contaminated with eggs, providing a route for reinfection and egg dispersal throughout the entire daycare.
Pneumococcal disease Pneumococcus is a bacteria that causes many different kinds of infections in people, ranging from ear infections and sinus infections to pneumonia, meningitis, and sepsis. Pneumonia An inflammation of the lungs usually caused by infection with bacteria, viruses, fungi or other organisms.
There are more than 50 kinds of pneumonia ranging in seriousness from mild to life-threatening. Although signs and symptoms vary, many cases of pneumonia develop suddenly, with chest pain, fever, chills, cough and shortness of breath.
Complications can include bacteria in the bloodstream, fluid accumulation and infection around the lungs, and lung abscesses. Rotavirus Rotavirus is the most common cause of severe diarrhea among children. It may often result in hospitalization.
The disease is characterized by vomiting and watery diarrhea for 3 - 8 days. Fever and abdominal pain occur frequently. The primary mode of transmission is fecal-oral , which is very common in daycare centers. Ringworm Ringworm Dermatophytosis is a contagious fungal infection. People can get it from direct skin-to-skin contact with an infected person or pet or indirect contact with an object or surface that an infected person or pet has touched. Ringworm appears as a circle of rash on the skin that's red and inflamed around the edge and healthy looking in the middle.
It can spread quickly in daycare centers, where close contact is common. Children who attend child-care centers or who have siblings who do are at a higher risk of infection. RSV usually causes mild cold-like signs and symptoms similar to those present during an upper respiratory infection. See Bronchiolitis Salmonellosis Salmonella Most persons infected with Salmonella develop diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramps 12 to 72 hours after infection.
The illness usually lasts 4 to 7 days. However, in some persons the diarrhea may be so severe that the patient needs to be hospitalized. Salmonella are usually transmitted to humans by eating foods contaminated with feces. Food may become contaminated by the hands of an infected child care worker who forgot to wash his or her hands with soap after using the bathroom or changing a diaper.
Scabies Scabies is an itchy skin condition caused by a tiny, eight-legged burrowing mite called Sarcoptes scabiei. It causes intense itching. The sheer discomfort of scabies can produce an almost irresistible urge to scratch.
Scabies is contagious through close physical contact prevalent in a childcare setting. It can spread quickly. Shigellosis Shigellosis is an infectious disease caused by a group of bacteria called Shigella. Most who are infected with Shigella develop diarrhea, fever, and painful stomach cramps starting a day or two after they are exposed to the bacterium. The diarrhea is often bloody. In some persons, especially young children, the diarrhea can be so severe that the patient needs to be hospitalized.
A severe infection with high fever may also be associated with seizures in children less than 2 years old. Some persons who are infected may have no symptoms at all, but may still pass the Shigella bacteria to others.
Shigellosis in day-care centers has become a common problem. SIDS strikes suddenly and silently, Typically, a peacefully sleeping baby simply never wakes up. Sinusitis An infection of the sinus cavities. Sinusitis can aggravate asthma. Streptococcus pneumoniae "strep" Strep throat may lead to serious complications, including: Tonsillitis, Sinusitis, ear infections, and Scarlet fever.
Additionally, strep throat may also lead to rheumatic fever, which can cause heart damage. Strep throat is caused by bacteria called group A streptococci GAS. It is most common during the winter and early spring. Tapeworm Tapeworm is an intestinal parasite that is transmitted by ingesting infected fleas. Some children will have diarrhea, cramping, abdominal pain, and, sometimes, rectal or anal itching.
Fleas in daycare are usually found either on animals or in a sand box. Tonsillitis Tonsillitis is an inflammation of the tonsils caused by a viral or bacterial infection. Sometimes the swelling can be so severe that the roof of the mouth and tongue meet, blocking air flow and making swallowing extremely difficult.
It is spread by close contact such as in daycare centers Tuberculosis, Mycobacterium A life-threatening infection that primarily affects the lungs, has again become an increasing health concern. TB spreads through airborne droplets when an infected person coughs, talks or sneezes. Pulmonary TB can cause permanent lung damage. Tuberculosis can also spread to other parts of the body where it can lead to serious or life-threatening complications.
The growing number of children cared for in group settings daycares, preschools, etc. Whooping cough pertussis Whooping cough affects the chest, airways and lungs. It's caused by Bordetella pertussis bacteria, which spread through droplets of respiratory secretions that are coughed or sneezed into the air by someone who's already infected. Pertussis is highly contagious, and institutional outbreaks of whooping cough, such as those in a daycare centers are common.
Symptoms include severe coughing attacks that end with a high-pitched whoop sound as the infected person gasps for air.
These may be so severe that the person vomits or turns red or blue from the effort. For young children, complications from whooping cough are severe and may also include: Pneumonia, slowed or stopped breathing, seizures, brain damage, or even death.
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D escription: Compiled from a variety of sources. An allergy is an immune malfunction whereby a person's body is hyposensitized to react immunologically to typically nonimmunogenic substances. In certain outbreaks, the implicated food is fecally contaminated with NLVs at its source e.
However, foodhandlers might contaminate food items during preparation. The risk for contamination through foodhandlers is increased when the food item is consumed without further cooking e. Passengers and crew members on cruise ships and naval vessels are frequently affected by outbreaks of NLV gastroenteritis 35,92, These ships dock in countries where levels of sanitation might be inadequate, thus increasing the risk for contamination of water and food taken aboard or for having a passenger board with an active infection.
After a passenger or crew member brings the virus on board, the close living quarters on ships amplify opportunities for person-to-person transmission.
Furthermore, the arrival of new and susceptible passengers every 1 or 2 weeks on affected cruise ships provides an opportunity for sustained transmission during successive cruises. NLV outbreaks extending beyond 12 successive cruises have been reported Consequently, efforts to prevent both the initial contamination of the implicated vehicle and subsequent person-to-person NLV transmission will prevent the occurrence and spread of NLV gastroenteritis outbreaks.
Theoretically, any food item can potentially be infected with NLVs through fecal contamination. However, certain foods are implicated more often than others in outbreaks of NLV gastroenteritis.
Shellfish e. In addition, cooking e. Until reliable indicators for routine monitoring of viral contamination of harvest waters and shellfish are available, measures to prevent the contamination of harvest waters with human waste e. Food contamination by infectious foodhandlers is another frequent cause of NLV gastroenteritis outbreaks. Because of the low infectious dose of NLVs and the high concentration of virus in stool, even a limited contamination can result in substantial outbreaks.
Ready-to-eat foods that require handling but no subsequent cooking e. Previously, the exclusion of ill foodhandlers for hours after resolution of illness was recommended to prevent outbreaks caused by foodhandlers Data from recent human volunteer and epidemiologic studies demonstrate that viral antigen can be shed for a longer duration after recovery from illness and in the absence of clinical disease.
Although data are limited regarding whether this detectable viral antigen represents infectious virus, foodhandlers should be required to maintain strict personal hygiene at all times. Although waterborne outbreaks are far less common than foodborne outbreaks, NLV gastroenteritis outbreaks have been associated with sources of contaminated water, including municipal water, well water, stream water, commercial ice, lake water, and swimming pool water.
Because current analytic methods do not permit direct monitoring of NLVs in water, indicator organisms e. However, because the size, physiology, and susceptibility to physical treatment and disinfection of bacterial indicators differ from those of NLVs, inherent limitations of this approach exist.
Until reliable methods for assessing the occurrence and susceptibility to treatment of NLVs are available, prevention methods should focus on reducing human waste contamination of water supplies. If drinking or recreational water is suspected as being an outbreak source, high-level chlorination i.
Person-to-person spread of NLVs occurs by direct fecal-oral and airborne transmission. Such transmission plays a role in propagating NLV disease outbreaks, notably in institutional settings e. Although interruption of person-to-person transmission can be difficult, certain measures might help. Frequent handwashing with soap and water is an effective means of prevention. Because spattering or aerosols of infectious material might be involved in disease transmission, wearing masks should be considered for persons who clean areas substantially contaminated by feces or vomitus e.
Soiled linens and clothes should be handled as little as possible and with minimum agitation. They should be laundered with detergent at the maximum available cycle length and then machine dried.
Because environmental surfaces have been implicated in the transmission of enteric viruses, surfaces that have been soiled should be cleaned with an appropriate germicidal product e. In situations in which the epidemic is extended by periodic renewal of the susceptible population e.
The following sections provide a summary of the commonly available diagnostic methods, which are extensively reviewed elsewhere Under the electron microscope, NLVs can be identified by their characteristic morphology. In one type of IEM, convalescent-phase serum from patients is coated on the examination grid of the microscope before stool specimens are applied.
The antibody on the grid traps homologous virus, thereby increasing diagnostic yield. However, IEM has certain disadvantages, the greatest of which is that success is highly dependant on the skill and expertise of the microscopist.
Furthermore, the virus might be totally masked if a large excess of antibody is present, resulting in a false-negative test. The expression in baculoviruses of the capsid proteins of NLVs that self-assemble into stable virus-like particles has allowed the detection of these viruses by ELISAs.
To develop assays to detect virus in fecal specimens, the expressed capsid antigens have been used to generate hyperimmune antibodies in laboratory animals. To date, these assays have been type-specific, but broadly reactive tests are under development.
The baculovirus-expressed viral antigen can be directly used for detection of antibodies to NLVs in patient's sera by enzyme immunoassay. Because certain adults have preexisting immunoglobulin G IgG antibodies to NLVs, a single serum specimen is insufficient to indicate recent infection. In outbreak settings, if at least half of affected persons seroconvert to a specific NLV, that viral strain can be designated as etiologic.
Titers can begin to rise by the fifth day after onset of symptoms, peak at approximately the third week, and begin to fall by the sixth week. Hence, for IgG assays, the acute-phase serum should be drawn within the first 5 days and the convalescent-phase serum during the third to sixth weeks. In certain cases where diagnosis is critical e. In addition to potential difficulties in obtaining an adequate number of serum specimens during outbreaks, serologic assays are currently limited by the fact that the available array of expressed NLV antigens is insufficient to detect all antigenic types of NLVs.
High sensitivity of these assays i. Efforts are ongoing to develop universal or degenerate primers that would detect the majority of NLV strains that cause gastroenteritis outbreaks.
Application of new molecular diagnostics has expanded the scope of outbreak investigations, as demonstrated in recent outbreaks Table 2 , because outbreak source vehicles e. However, these methods are not sufficiently developed to be routinely applied. Through nucleotide sequencing, establishing an irrefutable genetic link between outbreaks that occur through a single contaminated vehicle that is distributed in multiple geographic locations is possible.
Specimen collection for viral testing should begin on day 1 of the epidemiologic investigation. Any delays to await testing results for bacterial or parasitic agents could preclude establishing a viral diagnosis. Ideally, specimens should be obtained during the acute phase of illness i.
With the development of sensitive molecular assays, the ability to detect viruses in specimens collected later in the illness has been improved. In specific cases, specimens might be collected later during the illness i. If specimens are collected late in the illness, the utility of viral diagnosis and interpretation of the results should be discussed with laboratory personnel before tests are conducted.
Number and Quantity. Bulk samples i. Serial specimens from persons with acute, frequent, high-volume diarrhea are useful as reference material for the development of assays. The smaller the specimen and the more formed the stool, the lower the diagnostic yield. Rectal swabs are of limited or no value because they contain insufficient quantity of nucleic acid for amplification.
Storage and Transport. Because freezing can destroy the characteristic viral morphology that permits a diagnosis by EM, specimens should be kept refrigerated at 4 C. At this temperature, specimens can be stored without compromising diagnostic yield for weeks, during which time testing for other pathogens can be completed. If the specimens have to be transported to a laboratory for testing, they should be bagged and sealed and kept on ice or frozen refrigerant packs in an insulated, waterproof container.
If facilities for testing specimens within weeks are not available, specimens can be frozen for antigen or PCR testing. Vomiting is the predominant symptom among children, and specimens of vomitus can be collected to supplement the diagnostic yield from stool specimens during an investigation.
Recommendations for collection, storage, and shipment of vomitus specimens are the same as those for stool specimens. Acute-phase specimens should be obtained during the first 5 days of symptoms, and the convalescent-phase specimen should be collected from the third to sixth week after resolution of symptoms. Ideally, 10 pairs of specimens from ill persons i. Adults should provide ml of blood, and children should provide ml.
Specimens should be collected in tubes containing no anticoagulant, and the sera should be spun off and frozen. If a centrifuge is not available, a clot should be allowed to form, and the serum should be decanted and frozen.
If this step cannot be accomplished, the whole blood should be refrigerated but not frozen. NLVs cannot be detected routinely in water, food, or environmental specimens. Nevertheless, during recent outbreaks , NLVs have been detected successfully in vehicles epidemiologically implicated as the source of infection. If a food or water item is strongly suspected as the source of an outbreak, then a sample should be obtained as early as possible and stored at 4 C.
If the epidemiologic investigation confirms the link, a laboratory with the capacity to test these specimens should be contacted for further testing. If drinking water is suspected, special filtration 45 of large volumes i. If, after consultation, viral diagnostic services would be useful, specimens may be shipped to CDC's Viral Gastroenteritis Section with the following provisions: A unique identifier for each patient preferably not the patient's name should be included on each specimen.
Stool specimens should be shipped as soon as they can be batched. Individual containers should be verified as being leak proof and then enclosed in a plastic bag. The entire collection should be bagged in plastic and placed in a padded, insulated box with refrigerant packs. Frozen acute- and convalescent-phase serum samples should be batched and sent in a single shipment. Waterproof, padded, insulated boxes should be used, with dry ice added to maintain freezing.
Whole-blood samples should not be frozen, and refrigerant packs should be used instead of dry ice. Final notification should be made by telephone to immediately before shipping. All suspected foodborne outbreaks of viral gastroenteritis for which specimens are sent to CDC for laboratory testing should be reported to CDC on a standard form. Visualization by immune electron microscopy of a nm particle associated with acute infectious nonbacterial gastroenteritis. J Virol ; Virus particles in epithelial cells of duodenal mucosa from children with acute non-bacterial gastroenteritis.
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