Molecular epidemiology of human picobirnaviruses among children of a slum community in Kolkata, India

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 453-458

  Bhattacharya, Rittwika ^a   Sahoo, Ganesh C ^a   Nayak, Mukti K ^a   Saha, Dhira Rani ^a   Sur, D ^a   Naik, T N ^a   Bhattacharya, S K ^a   Krishnan, Triveni ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHOLERA AND ENTERIC DISEASES   (India)

Author keywords

Bisegmented genomic dsRNA; Diarrhoea; PicoB23 (+) PicoB24 ( ) primer genogroup II PBV; PicoB25 (+) PicoB43 ( ) primer genogroup I PBV; Picobirnavirus (PBV)

Indexed keywords

RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; SILVER;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PICOBIRNAVIRUS; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA VIRUS; RNA VIRUS INFECTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SILVER STAINING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS STRAIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FECES; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; INDIA; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PICOBIRNAVIRUS; POVERTY AREAS; RNA VIRUS INFECTIONS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

PICOBIRNAVIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 33750027670     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2006.02.005     Document Type: Article

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