Acute gastroenteritis caused by GI/2 sapovirus, Taiwan, 2007

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1169-1171

  Wu, Fang Tzy ^a   Oka, Tomoichiro ^b   Takeda, Naokazu ^b   Katayama, Kazuhiko ^b   Hansman, Grant S ^b   Muo, Chih Hsin ^a   Liang, Shy Yuan ^a   Hung, Ching Hsiang ^a   Jiang, Donald Dah Shyong ^a   Jui, Hsin Chang ^a   Yang, Jyh Yuan ^a   Wu, Ho Sheng ^a   Yang, Chen Fu ^a,c  

^a CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ADULT; COLLEGE STUDENT; DIARRHEA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAPOVIRUS; TAIWAN; VIRUS DIAGNOSIS; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; SAPOVIRUS; TAIWAN;

EID: 46349103283     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1407.071531     Document Type: Letter

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