Detection of Rotavirus in children under five years of age presenting with diarrhoea at Mapulaneng Hospital at Bushbuckeridge, Republic of South Africa

Central African Journal of Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 305-307

  Tswana, S A ^a   Mitchell, J O ^b   Richards, P D ^c  

^a UNIV OF ZIMBABWE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Zimbabwe)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIARRHEA; FECES; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; NEWBORN; ROTAVIRUS; SOUTH AFRICA; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIARRHEA; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 10644297555     PISSN: 00089176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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