Epidemiological, clinical, and molecular features of norovirus infections in western India

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 922-932

  Chhabra, Preeti ^a   Dhongade, Ramchandra K ^b   Kalrao, Vijay R ^c   Bavdekar, Ashish R ^d   Chitambar, Shobha D ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (India)

^b Sant Dnyaneshwar Medical Education and Research Center   (India)

^c Bharati Hospital   (India)

^d KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Acute gastroenteritis; India; Molecular epidemiology; Noroviruses; Recombinants

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN VP1; RNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS RNA;

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROTAVIRUS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL VARIATION; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS STRAIN; VOMITING;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FECES; GASTROENTERITIS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOROVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

MIRIDAE; NOROVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS;

EID: 65649094400     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: 10969071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.21458     Document Type: Article

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