Molecular epidemiology of noroviruses detected in seasonal outbreaks of acute nonbacterial gastroenteritis in Osaka City, Japan, from 1996-1997 to 2008-2009

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 82, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2097-2105

  Iritani, Nobuhiro ^a   Kaida, Atsushi ^a   Kubo, Hideyuki ^a   Abe, Niichiro ^a   Goto, Kaoru ^a   Ogura, Hisashi ^b   Seto, Yoshiyuki ^c  

^a OSAKA CITY INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Osaka City University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gastroenteritis; Genotype; Molecular epidemiology; Norovirus; Outbreak

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ARTICLE; FOOD POISONING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NOROVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OYSTER; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GASTROENTERITIS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOROVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

MIRIDAE; NOROVIRUS; OSTREIDAE;

EID: 78049399737     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: 10969071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.21915     Document Type: Article

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