Novel recombinant sapovirus, Japan [6]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 865-867

  Tung, Gia Phan ^a   Okitsu, Shoko ^a   Müller, Werner E G ^b   Kohno, Hideki ^c   Ushijima, Hiroshi ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC RNA;

GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAPOVIRUS; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS RECOMBINANT;

EID: 33646542370     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1205.051608     Document Type: Letter

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