Detection and sequencing of Norwalk-like viruses from stool samples in Japan using reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction amplification

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 317-320

  Nakayama, Miyuki ^a   Ueda, Yuhichi ^b   Kawamoto, Hiroyoshi ^c   Han Jun, Yue ^d   Saito, Kunihiko ^d   Nishio, Osamu ^d   Ushijima, Hiroshi ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Maizuru Kyosai Hospital   (Japan)

^c Gifu Prefectural Institute of Health and Environmental Sciences   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Gene; Norwalk like virus; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NORWALK GASTROENTERITIS VIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIRUS ISOLATION;

DNA VIRUSES; NOROVIRUS; NORWALK VIRUS; NORWALK-LIKE VIRUS; ROTAVIRUS;

EID: 0029870729     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1996.tb03343.x     Document Type: Article

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