Table 1.
Seasonal distribution of 74 stool specimens from 47 outbreak investigations and 103 sporadic stool specimens submitted for testing between July 2007 and May 2010a
| Pathogen | No. of spec |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| O/B |
Sporadic |
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| Total | Season |
Total | Season |
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| W | Sp | Su | F | W | Sp | Su | F | |||
| Adenovirus | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 15 | 6 | 6 | 1 |
| Rotavirus | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 2 | 47 | 1 | 0 |
| Norovirus GI | 19 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Norovirus GII | 28 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 21 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Astrovirus | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Negative | 24 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 16 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Total | 74 | 8 | 12 | 13 | 41 | 103 | 31 | 58 | 12 | 2 |
a
spec, specimens; O/B, outbreak; W, winter; Sp, spring; Su, summer; F, fall.