Members of the family Caliciviridae (Norwalk Virus and Sapporo Virus) are the most prevalent cause of gastroenteritis outbreaks among infants in Japan

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 181, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2029-2032

  Nakata, Shuji ^a   Honma, Shinjiro ^a   Numata, Kazuko Kinoshita ^a   Kogawa, Keiko ^a   Ukae, Susumu ^a   Morita, Yasuyuki ^a   Adachi, Noriaki ^a   Chiba, Shunzo ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALICIVIRUS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; NORWALK GASTROENTERITIS VIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS;

CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, VIRAL; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; NORWALK VIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONS;

EID: 0034089254     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/315500     Document Type: Article

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