Prevalence of astrovirus infection among Chilean children with acute gastroenteritis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 3691-3693

  Gaggero, Aldo ^a   O'Ryan, Miguel ^a   Noel, Jacqueline S ^a   Glass, Roger I ^b   Monroe, Stephan S ^b   Mamani, Nora ^b   Prado, Valeria ^a   Avendaño, Luis F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ARTICLE; ASTROVIRUS; CHILD; CHILE; DIARRHEA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPE; VIRUS CULTURE;

ASTROVIRIDAE; RNA VIRUSES; ROTAVIRUS;

EID: 0031756376     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.12.3691-3693.1998     Document Type: Article

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