Probabilities in norovirus outbreak diagnosis

Journal of Clinical Virology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 38-42

  Duizer, Erwin ^a   Pielaat, Annemarie ^a   Vennema, Harry ^a   Kroneman, Annelies ^a   Koopmans, Marion ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Norovirus; Outbreaks

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NOROVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS DIAGNOSIS;

CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; NOROVIRUS; PROBABILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34548126491     PISSN: 13866532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2007.05.015     Document Type: Article

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