Norovirus GII.4 strains and outbreaks, Australia [10]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1128-1130

  Tu, Elise T V ^a   Nguyen, Thanh ^b   Lee, Phoebe ^b   Bull, Rowena A ^a   Musto, Jennie ^c   Hansman, Grant ^d   White, Peter A ^a,b   Rawlinson, William D ^a,b   McIver, Christopher J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c New South Wales Government   (Australia)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; DIARRHEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; GASTROENTERITIS; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NOROVIRUS; VIRUS STRAIN; VOMITING;

EID: 34447287404     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1307.060999     Document Type: Letter

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