Investigation of the environment and of mothers in transmission of rotavirus infections in the neonatal nursery

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1099-1105

  Ramani, Sasirekha ^a   Arvunugam, Rajesh ^a   Gopalarathinam, Nithya ^a   Mohanty, Ipsita ^a   Mathew, Sudhin ^a   Gladstone, Beryl Primrose ^a   Jana, Atanu Kumar ^a   Kuruvilla, Kurien Anil ^a   Kang, Gagandeep ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Environment; Neonates; Nursery; Rotavirus

Indexed keywords

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTHER; NEWBORN; NEWBORN PERIOD; NURSERY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANTIGENS, VIRAL; BEDS; CAPSID PROTEINS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; FECES; FEMALE; GENES, VIRAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; MALE; MOTHERS; NURSERIES, HOSPITAL; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ROTAVIRUS;

EID: 43249105839     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: 10969071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.21177     Document Type: Article

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