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We systematically abstracted data on case characteristics, outbreak contributing factors, transmission sites, and interventions (including contact investigation) from reports written by CDC teams upon return from outbreak investigations.

Several studies have described the determinants of outbreak detection performance, including: system factors (representativeness, outbreak detection algorithms and algorithm-specifics), outbreak characteristics (outbreak size, shape of the outbreak signal and time of the outbreak) [ 5- 8].

Publications were excluded if they described a single outbreak given that such publications, although informative, may produce less generalizable results due to outbreak specific conditions with respect to genotype circulation, population characteristics, outbreak reporting and control activities.

Of these outbreaks, >50% were caused by norovirus and 25% were presumed viral on the basis of clinical signs and symptoms and outbreak characteristics, including high frequency of vomiting, short duration of illness, and short incubation period (1 ).

In a number of characteristics, the outbreak closely resembles outbreaks associated with CA-MRSA.

Peak timing is one of the essential characteristics of outbreak dynamics and it reflects the time when an outbreak reaches its maximum intensity.

However, it is reasonable that both timeliness and accurate case counts, albeit simplistic, are positive characteristics in outbreak reporting worthy of analysis over a large sample of outbreaks.

The isolates tested by PFGE were the first human and animal isolates to be sent to the NLEP, and testing continued until type characteristics of outbreak strains were identified and the epidemiologic designations of patients involved in the outbreak were confirmed microbiologically.

The characteristics of outbreak strains were derived by correlating the results of phenotypic and genotypic assays.

The potential for such bias may be evaluated by more detailed microbiological studies on the distribution of growth, survival and virulence characteristics in outbreak and endemic strains.

We compared characteristics of outbreak strains with those of previously investigated CA-MRSA strains isolated in the United States (MW2) and Australia (A803355, A823549, and E802537), and a strain isolated from an outpatient in Japan in 1981 (81/108).