Epidemiology of rotavirus diarrhea in Mongolia and Sri Lanka, March 2005-February 2007

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 200, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Nyambat, Batmunkh ^a   Gantuya, Sengee ^c   Batuwanthudawe, Ranjith ^d   Wijesinghe, Pushpa R ^d   Abeysinghe, Nihal ^d   Galagoda, Geethani ^e   Kirkwood, Carl ^f   Bogdanovic Sakran, Nada ^f   Kang, Jung Oak ^b   Kilgore, Paul E ^a  

^a International Vaccine Institute   (South Korea)

^b Hanyang University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c MONGOLIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Mongolia)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Sri Lanka)

^e Medical Research Center   (Sri Lanka)

^f MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZED CHILD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONGOLIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROTAVIRUS; SRI LANKA; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS STRAIN;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MONGOLIA; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; SRI LANKA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 72849124531     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/605030     Document Type: Article

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