Identification of human astrovirus infections among children with acute gastroenteritis in the southern part of Vietnam during 2005-2006

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 298-305

  Nguyen, Tuan Anh ^a,b   Hoang, LePhuc ^b   Pham, Le Duc ^b   Hoang, Kim Trong ^b   Mizuguchi, Misashi ^a   Okitsu, Shoko ^a,c   Ushijima, Hiroshi ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Children's Hospital No 1   (Viet Nam)

^c AINO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute gastroenteritis; Astrovirus; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ARTICLE; ASTROVIRUS; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMON COLD; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEVER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; VIET NAM; VIRAL GASTROENTERITIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VOMITING;

AGE FACTORS; ASTROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MAMASTROVIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; VIETNAM;

ASTROVIRIDAE; HUMAN ASTROVIRUS;

EID: 37549024240     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: 10969071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.21032     Document Type: Article

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