Detection of Norwalk-like virus infection aboard two U.S. Navy ships

Military Medicine

Volumn 167, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 826-830

  Thornton, Scott ^a   Davies, David ^a   Chapman, Frank ^a   Farkas, Tibor ^a   Wilton, Nouansy ^a   Doggett, Deborah ^a   Jiang, Xi ^a  

^a Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; FEVER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NAVY; NORWALK GASTROENTERITIS VIRUS; SHIP; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; VOMITING;

EID: 0036796866     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/167.10.826     Document Type: Article

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