Detection and genetic characterization of norovirus strains circulating among infants and children with acute gastroenteritis in Japan during 2004-2005

Clinical Laboratory

Volumn 52, Issue 9-10, 2006, Pages 519-525

  Phan, Tung Gia ^a   Takanashi, Sayaka ^a   Kaneshi, Kunio ^a   Ueda, Yuichi ^a   Nakaya, Shigekazu ^a   Nishimura, Shuichi ^a   Sugita, Kumiko ^a   Nishimura, Tadashi ^a   Yamamoto, Atsuko ^a   Yagyu, Fumihiro ^a   Okitsu, Shoko ^a   Maneekarn, Niwat ^b   Ushijima, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Faculty of Medicine Chiang Mai University   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Gastroenteritis; Japan; Norovirus; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; REGIONALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS CLASSIFICATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS STRAIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; MALE; NOROVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

LORDSDALE VIRUS; NOROVIRUS;

EID: 33750490458     PISSN: 14336510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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