Detection of a novel recombinant norovirus from sewage water in Toyama Prefecture, Japan

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 394-398

  Nakamura, Kazuya ^a   Iwai, Masae ^a   Zhang, Jie ^a,b   Obara, Mayumi ^a   Horimoto, Eiji ^a   Hasegawa, Sumiyo ^a   Kurata, Takeshi ^a   Takizawa, Takenori ^a  

^a TOYAMA INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Japan)

^b Liaoning Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CENTRIFUGATION; CROSS REACTION; DESORPTION; DNA SYNTHESIS; ELUTION; EPIDEMIC; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; JAPAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRECIPITATION; RNA EXTRACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEWAGE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS STRAIN;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOROVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEWAGE;

EID: 72849143098     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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