G2 as an emerging rotavirus strain in pediatric gastroenteritis in southern Italy

Infection

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 113-119

  Finamore, E ^a   Vitiello, M ^a   Kampanaraki, A ^a   Rao, M ^a   Galdiero, Massimiliano ^a   Galdiero, E ^b   Bevilacqua, P ^a   Gallo, M A ^c   Galdiero, Marilena ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c National Laboratory of Research   (Italy)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Gastroenteritis; Human rotavirus; Rotavirus serotypes genotypes

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS; ARTICLE; ASTROVIRUS; BACTERIUM; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FECES ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN ROTAVIRUS; INFANT; ITALY; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; VIRAL GASTROENTERITIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CAPSID PROTEINS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FECES; GASTROENTERITIS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; ITALY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 79955639901     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-011-0102-z     Document Type: Article

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