Association of histo-blood group antigens with susceptibility to norovirus infection may be strain-specific rather than genogroup dependent

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 198, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 940-941

  Tan, Ming ^a   Jiang, Xi ^a,b  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; BLOOD GROUP; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; EPIDEMIC; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; LETTER; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NOROVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; NOROVIRUS;

EID: 51749119710     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/589810     Document Type: Letter

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