Serotyping of human group A rotaviruses in Nara Prefecture, Japan

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 39-41

  Kitahori, Yoshiteru ^a   Inoue, Yumiko ^a   Takebe, Hisakatsu ^a   Imai, Shunsuke ^a  

^a Nara Pref Inst of Public Health   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN ROTAVIRUS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; JAPAN; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; FECES; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; SEROTYPING;

EID: 0038137220     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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