Rotavirus infection in neonates at a university hospital in Korea

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 893-895

  Kim, Chang Ryul ^a,b   Oh, Jae Won ^a   Yum, Myung Kul ^a   Lee, Jung Han ^a   Kang, Jung Oak ^a  

^a Hanyang University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Hanyang University Guri Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN ROTAVIRUS; HUMAN ROTAVIRUS G4P 6; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RATE; KOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; NURSERY; PATIENT CARE; SYMPTOM; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

CROSS INFECTION; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; KOREA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 70349178690     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/599285     Document Type: Article

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