Age-stratified seroprevalence of neutralizing antibodies to astrovirus types 1 to 7 in humans in the Netherlands

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 33-37

  Koopmans, M P G ^a   Bijen, M H L ^a   Monroe, S S ^b   Vlnje J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; ASTROVIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA VIRUS INFECTION; SEROPREVALENCE; VIRUS DETECTION;

EID: 0031930638     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.5.1.33-37.1998     Document Type: Article

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