A large outbreak of acute gastroenteritis associated with astrovirus among students and teachers in osaka, japan

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 439-443

  Oishi, Isao ^a,b   Yamazaki, Kenji ^a,b   Kimoto, Tatsuo ^a,b   Minekawa, Yoshiichi ^a,b   Utagawa, Etsuko ^a,b   Yamazaki, Shudo ^a,b   Inouye, Sakae ^a,b   Grohmann, Gary S ^a,b   Monroe, Stephan S ^a,b   Stine, Sarah E ^a,b   Carcamo, Cesar ^a,b   Ando, Tamie ^a,b   Glass, Roger I ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY;

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; ASTROVIRUS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROCONVERSION; STUDENT; TEACHER; VIRUS ISOLATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ASTROVIRUS; CHILD; DIARRHEA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FACULTY; FECES; FEMALE; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD POISONING; FOOD SERVICES; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; JAPAN; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MIDDLE AGE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STUDENTS; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 0028290329     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/170.2.439     Document Type: Article

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