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- An estimated 179 million cases of acute gastroenteritis (AGE) occur annually in the U.S., frequently affecting both training and deployed military personnel.
- Since 2011, the Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) has been monitoring AGE prevalence and its causes at four U.S. military training facilities.
- Initial findings from 2011 to 2016 revealed that norovirus was the main cause of both isolated cases and outbreaks of AGE among military recruits.
Article Abstract
An estimated 179 million cases of acute gastroenteritis (AGE) occur each year in the U.S. and AGE is commonly reported within both training and deployed U.S. military populations. Beginning in 2011, the Operational Infectious Diseases laboratory at Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) has undertaken routine surveillance of four U.S. military training facilities to systematically track the prevalence of AGE and to establish its etiologies among U.S. military recruits. Employing both molecular and standard microbiological techniques, NHRC routinely assays for pathogens of direct military relevance, including norovirus genogroups I and II, , , and . During its initial surveillance efforts (2011-2016), NHRC identified norovirus as the primary etiology of both sporadic cases and outbreaks of AGE among trainees.
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