Rare rotavirus strains in children with severe diarrhea, Malaysia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 950-

  Ch'ng, Ling Sing ^a,c   Lee, Way S ^b   Kirkwood, Carl D ^a,c  

^a MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN VP4; PROTEIN VP7; VIRUS RNA; CAPSID PROTEIN;

CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; LETTER; MALAYSIA; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; RNA SEQUENCE; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TYPING; VP 4 GENE; VP 7 GENE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; INFANT; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VIROLOGY;

CAPSID PROTEINS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; HUMANS; INFANT; MALAYSIA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 79955747839     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1705.101652     Document Type: Letter

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