Outbreak of neonatal gastroenteritis associated with astrovirus serotype 1 at a hospital in inner Mongolia, China

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4306-4309

  Li, Chun Ying ^a   Liu, Na ^a   Guo, Wei Dong ^a   Yu, Qiong ^a   Wang, Wen Rui ^a   Song, Zhuang Zhi ^a   Yan, Hai ^a   Luo, Yun ^a   Lu, Ai Tao ^a   Li, Hui Ying ^a   Zhu, Lin ^a   Duan, Zhao Jun ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR VIRAL DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DIARRHEA; ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ARTICLE; ASTROVIRUS; CHINA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HYGIENE; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYLOGENY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROTAVIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE; VIRUS STRAIN;

ASTROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HOSPITALS; HOUSEKEEPING, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MAMASTROVIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ASTROVIRIDAE; CALICIVIRIDAE; HUMAN ASTROVIRUS 1; ROTAVIRUS;

EID: 78049512262     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00797-10     Document Type: Article

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