Sapovirus in adults in rehabilitation center, upper Austria

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1186-1187

  Mikula, Claudia ^a   Springer, Burkhard ^a   Reichart, Sandra ^b   Bierbacher, Katharina ^a   Lichtenschopf, Alfred ^c   Hoehne, Marina ^d  

^a AUSTRIAN AGENCY FOR HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY   (Austria)

^b Public Health Authority   (Austria)

^c Rehabilitation Center Weyer   (Austria)

^d ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AUSTRIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROENTERITIS; GENOTYPE; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LETTER; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REHABILITATION CENTER; RNA VIRUS INFECTION; SAPOVIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VOMITING; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIC; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRIA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; REHABILITATION CENTERS; SAPOVIRUS;

EID: 77954435505     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1607.091789     Document Type: Letter

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