Caliciviruses and foodborne gastroenteritis, Chile

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1134-1137

  Vidal, Roberto ^a   Solari, Veronica ^b   Mamani, Nora ^a   Jiang, Xi ^c   Vollaire, Jimena ^b   Roessler, Patricia ^a   Prado, Valeria ^a   Matson, David O ^d   O'Ryan, Miguel L ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b Housing Ministry of Chile   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF THE KING S DAUGHTERS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALICIVIRUS; CHILE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; FOOD INTAKE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEA FOOD; VIRUS STRAIN;

EID: 21144438271     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1107.041062     Document Type: Article

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