Human norovirus infection: Surveillance and source tracking

Future Virology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 431-438

  Maunula, Leena ^a   Von Bonsdorff, Carl Henrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

genotyping; molecular epidemiology; norovirus; RT PCR; source tracking; surveillance

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CALICIVIRUS INFECTION; DIARRHEA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIC; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS INFECTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRAL GASTROENTERITIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VOMITING; WATER CONTAMINATION;

NOROVIRUS;

EID: 79955749247     PISSN: 17460794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fvl.11.22     Document Type: Article

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