Zur statistischen Untererfassung von Norovirus-Infektionen: Erkenntnisse aus Daten von zwei Gesundheitsämtern

Only laboratory-confirmed norovirus (NoV) cases have to be notified to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) since 2011, but not other, e. g. clinical-epidemiological cases. It can be assumed that the extent of underreporting of NoV cases in Germany has significantly increased since then.To discuss the extent of underreporting, we wanted to find out how many laboratory tests were carried out during gastroenteritis outbreaks. Furthermore, the...