An outbreak of group c rotavirus gastroenteritis among children attending a day-care centre in Belém, Brazil

Journal of Diarrhoeal Diseases Research

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 69-74

  Gabbay, Yvone B ^a   Jiang, Baoming ^a,b   Oliveira, Consuelo S ^a,c   Mascarenhas, Joana D P ^a,b,c   Leite, José Paulo G ^a   Glass, Roger I ^a,b   Linhares, Alexandre C ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO EVANDRO CHAGAS   (Brazil)

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

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Day care centres; Diarrhoea; Disease outbreaks; Gastroenteritis; Infantile; Rotaviras

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CLASSIFICATION; DAY CARE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROTAVIRUS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

BRAZIL; CHILD DAY CARE CENTERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 0033139796     PISSN: 02538768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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