Endemic transmission of echovirus 30 in Toyama, Japan in 2010 is verified by environmental surveillance

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 165-167

  Iwai, Masae ^a   Horimoto, Eiji ^a   Obara, Mayumi ^a   Obuchi, Masatsugu ^a   Kurata, Takeshi ^a   Kawagoshi, Kumiko ^b   Nakamura, Sumika ^c   Shimizu, Hiroyuki ^d   Yoshida, Hiromu ^d   Takizawa, Takenori ^a  

^a TOYAMA INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Japan)

^b Tonami Health Center   (Japan)

^c Takaoka Health Center   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHO VIRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIC; GENE SEQUENCE; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEWAGE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECHOVIRUS INFECTIONS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ENTEROVIRUS B, HUMAN; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEWAGE;

EID: 79955590023     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: 18842836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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