Diagnosing norovirus-associated infectious intestinal disease using viral load

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Phillips, Gemma ^a,b   Lopman, Ben ^a,b   Tam, Clarence C ^b   Iturriza Gomara, Miren ^a   Brown, David ^a   Gray, Jim ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FECES ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTESTINE INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; NOROVIRUS ASSOCIATED INFECTIOUS INTESTINE INFECTION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REFERENCE VALUE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS LOAD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FECES; GASTROENTERITIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ROC CURVE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

VIRUS RNA;

CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FECES; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; NOROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; ROC CURVE; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 67650100373     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-9-63     Document Type: Article

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