Incidence of Group C Human Rotavirus in Central Australia and Sequence Variation of the VP7 and VP4 Genes

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2127-2133

  Schnagl, Roger D ^a   Boniface, Karen ^a   Cardwell, Pauline ^a   McCarthy, Damien ^a   Ondracek, Caroline ^a   Coulson, Barbara ^b   Erlich, John ^c   Morey, Fran ^c  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c ALICE SPRINGS HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; EPIDEMIC; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROTAVIRUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VP4 GENE; VP7 GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CAPSID PROTEINS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GASTROENTERITIS; GENES, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORTHERN TERRITORY; PHYLOGENY; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TIME FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HUMAN ROTAVIRUS A; HUMAN ROTAVIRUS C; RNA VIRUSES; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS C;

EID: 2442462301     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.5.2127-2133.2004     Document Type: Article

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