Rotavirus deaths: Rare or unrecognized?

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 535-537

  Staat, Mary Allen ^a,d   Roberts, Nancy E ^a   Ward, Richard L ^a   Bove, Kevin E ^a   Pfalzgraf, Robert ^b   Berke, Tamas ^c   Matson, David O ^c   Bernstein, David I ^a  

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

^b Hamilton County Coroner's Office   (United States)

^c EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROTAVIRUS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VIRUS DETECTION;

DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 22044444054     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000992280504400611     Document Type: Article

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