ArticleEpidemiology and infection2016
An outbreak of norovirus infection associated with fermented oyster consumption in South Korea, 2013.
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- A large-scale norovirus outbreak associated with kimchi consumption across multiple schools in a Korean city in 2024.Epidemiology and health · 2025Article
- Two Faces of Fermented Foods-The Benefits and Threats of Its Consumption.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Review
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- Accumulation and Depuration Kinetics of Rotavirus in Mussels Experimentally Contaminated.Food and environmental virology · 2020Article
- Norovirus Monitoring in Oysters Using Two Different Extraction Methods.Food and environmental virology · 2019Article
- Host-Specific Bacteroides Markers-Based Microbial Source Tracking in Aquaculture Areas.Microbes and environments · 2018Article
- Foodborne Infectious Diseases Mediated by Inappropriate Infection Control in Food Service Businesses and Relevant Countermeasures in Korea.Osong public health and research perspectives · 2017Review
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Abstract
An acute gastroenteritis (AGE) outbreak was reported in May 2013 in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. Eight students who had eaten breakfast on 21 May 2013 at a high-school restaurant exhibited AGE symptoms. Our case-control study showed that a strong association was observed between AGE symptoms and fermented oyster consumption. Virological studies also indicated that noroviruses (NoVs) were detected from both clinical samples and fermented oyster samples, and multiple different genotypes (genogroups GII.4, GII.11 and GII.14) of NoVs were present in both samples. The nucleotide sequence similarity between the strains found in the clinical samples and those in the fermented oysters was more than 99·5%. Therefore, to prevent further outbreaks, proper management of raw oysters is necessary and the food industry should be aware of the risk of viral gastroenteritis posed by fermented oysters contaminated with NoVs.
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