Evaluation of two commercial enzyme immunoassays for the detection of norovirus in faecal samples from hospitalised children with sporadic acute gastroenteritis

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 341-343

  Wilhelmi de Cal, I ^a   Revilla, A ^b   del Alamo, J M ^a   Roman E ^c   Moreno, S ^b   Sanchez Fauquier A ^b  

^a HOSPITAL SEVERO OCHOA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE FUENLABRADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Diarrhoea; Enzyme immunoassay; Norovirus; RT PCR; Viral gastroenteritis

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS DETECTION;

NOROVIRUS;

EID: 34247203223     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2006.01594.x     Document Type: Article

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