Molecular epidemiology of human astrovirus diarrhea among children from a periurban community of Mexico City

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 183, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 681-686

  Walter, Jolán E ^a   Mitchell, Douglas K ^a   Guerrero, M Lourdes ^c   Berke, Tamás ^a   Matson, David O ^a   Monroe, Stephan S ^b   Pickering, Larry K ^a   Ruiz Palacios, Guillermo ^c  

^a EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS Y NUTRICIÓN SALVADOR ZUBIRÁN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; ASTROVIRUS; CHILD; DIARRHEA; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEXICO; NEWBORN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS TYPING;

ASTROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; CACO-2 CELLS; DIARRHEA, INFANTILE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA PRIMERS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MAMASTROVIRUS; MEXICO; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0035282808     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/318825     Document Type: Article

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