Emerging group-A rotavirus and a nosocomial outbreak of diarrhoea

Lancet

Volumn 356, Issue 9236, 2000, Pages 1161-1162

  Widdowson, Marc Alain ^a   Van Doornum, Gerard J J ^b   Van Der Poel, Wim H M ^a   De Boer, Annette S ^a   Mahdi, Ulrike ^b   Koopmans, Marion ^a  

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

^b SLOTERVAART HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATERNAL ANTIBODY; ROTAVIRUS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; FECES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INCUBATOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROTAVIRUS; VACCINATION; VIRUS DETECTION;

EID: 0034734667     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)02760-4     Document Type: Article

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