An outbreak of acute gastroenteritis caused by human group C rotavirus in a welfare institution in Okayama Prefecture

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 255-257

  Kuzuya, Mitsutaka ^b   Hamano, Masako ^b   Nishijima, Michiko ^b   Fujii, Ritsushi ^b   Ogura, Hajime ^b   Tanaka, Misao ^a   Oda, Akio ^a   Kusaka, Sachie ^a   Naitou, Mitsuko ^a  

^a Okayama Prefectural Tsuyama Public Health Center   (Japan)

^b Okayama Prefectural Institute for Environmental Science and Public Health   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN ROTAVIRUS; HUMAN ROTAVIRUS GROUP C; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CAPSID PROTEINS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; SOCIAL WELFARE;

EID: 26844435058     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: 13446304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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