Prevalence of antibodies to human caliciviruses (HuCVs) in Kuwait established by ELISA using baculovirus-expressed capsid antigens representing two genogroups of HuCVs

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 115-118

  Dimitrov, Dimitre H ^a,b   Dashti, Suhaila A H ^a   Ball, Judith M ^b   Bishbishi, Eiman ^a   Alsaeid, Khalid ^a   Jiang, Xi ^c   Estes, Mary K ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

caliciviruses; epidemiology; Middle East

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACULOVIRUS; CALICIVIRUS; CHILD; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; KUWAIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SCREENING; SERUM; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; BACULOVIRIDAE; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CAPSID; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GASTROENTERITIS; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KUWAIT; MIDDLE AGED; NORWALK VIRUS; PREVALENCE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

CALICIVIRIDAE; MIRIDAE; NOROVIRUS; NORWALK VIRUS; UNIDENTIFIED BACULOVIRUS;

EID: 0031040347     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9071(199702)51:2<115::AID-JMV5>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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