Emerging GII.4 norovirus variants affect children with diarrhea in Palermo, Italy in 2006

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 139-145

  Ramirez, Stefania ^a   Giammanco, Giovanni M ^a   De Grazia, Simona ^a   Colomba, Claudia ^a   Martella, Vito ^b   Arista, Serenella ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c Dipartimento di Scienze Per la Promozione Della Salute G d'Alessandro   (Italy)

Author keywords

Children; Gastroenteritis; GII.4 genotype; Italy; Norovirus

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS RNA;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NOROVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRAL GASTROENTERITIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GASTROENTERITIS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

NOROVIRUS;

CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GASTROENTERITIS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; ITALY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOROVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 58149268424     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: 10969071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.21344     Document Type: Article

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