An outbreak of food-borne gastroenteritis due to sapovirus among junior high school students

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 438-441

  Usuku, Shuzo ^a   Kumazaki, Makoto ^a   Kitamura, Katsuhiko ^b   Tochikubo, Osamu ^a   Noguchi, Yuzo ^a  

^a Yokohama City Institute of Health   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILL; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD POISONING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HEADACHE; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; MALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAPOVIRUS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRAL GASTROENTERITIS; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ADULT; CATERING SERVICE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GASTROENTERITIS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

CAPSID PROTEIN;

ADULT; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CAPSID PROTEINS; CHILD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FACULTY; FOOD POISONING; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RESTAURANTS; SAPOVIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STUDENTS;

EID: 58149374647     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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