Burden of disease & molecular epidemiology of group A rotavirus infections in India

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 619-632

  Ramani, Sasirekha ^a   Kang, Gagandeep ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Genotyping; India; Rotavirus

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; ROTAVIRUS VACCINE; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

CHILD; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GASTROENTERITIS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INDIA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTUSSUSCEPTION; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NEWBORN INFECTION; PATHOGENESIS; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RNA VIRUS; ROTAVIRUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROTYPE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; SYMPTOM; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TYPING; ZOONOSIS;

COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS INFECTION; DIARRHEA; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 34547579954     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: 09715916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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