Prevalence of human calicivirus infections in Kenya as determined by enzyme immunoassays for three genogroups of the virus

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 3160-3163

  Nakata, Shuji ^a   Honma, Shinjiro ^a   Numata, Kazuko ^a   Kogawa, Keiko ^a   Ukae, Susumu ^a   Adachi, Noriaki ^a   Jiang, Xi ^b   Estes, Mary K ^c   Gatheru, Zippora ^d   Tukei, Peter M ^d   Chiba, Shunzo ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF THE KING S DAUGHTERS   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ADULT; AGE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CALICIVIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFANT; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEXICO VIRUS; NORWALK GASTROENTERITIS VIRUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPPORO VIRUS; SERUM; VIRUS INFECTION;

CALICIVIRIDAE; NOROVIRUS ISOLATES; NORWALK VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; SAPPORO VIRUS;

EID: 0031712995     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.11.3160-3163.1998     Document Type: Article

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