Rotavirus genotypes and severity of diarrheal disease

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 315-316

  Kang, Gagandeep ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMORBIDITY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS G1; ROTAVIRUS G3; ROTAVIRUS G4; ROTAVIRUS G8; ROTAVIRUS G9; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

DIARRHEA; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; SEROTYPING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33746041460     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/505500     Document Type: Note

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