Norovirus GII.4 variant 2006b caused epidemics of acute gastroenteritis in Australia during 2007 and 2008

Journal of Clinical Virology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 265-271

  Eden, John Sebastian ^a   Bull, Rowena A ^a   Tu, Elise ^a,b   McIver, Christopher J ^a,b   Lyon, Michael J ^c   Marshall, John A ^d   Smith, David W ^e   Musto, Jennie ^f   Rawlinson, William D ^a,b   White, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c QUEENSLAND HEALTH   (Australia)

^d VICTORIAN INFECTIOUS DISEASES REFERENCE LABORATORY   (Australia)

^e SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f New South Wales Government   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gastroenteritis; Molecular epidemiology; Norovirus (NoV); Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT PCR)

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FECES; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; WINTER;

AUSTRALIA; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FECES; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 78149499338     PISSN: 13866532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2010.09.001     Document Type: Article

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