Molecular epidemiology of norovirus infections in children and adults: Sequence analysis of region C indicates genetic diversity of NVGII strains in Kolkata, India

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 139, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 910-918

  Nataraju, S M ^a   Pativada, M ^a   Chatterjee, D ^a   Nayak, M K ^a   Ganesh, B ^a   Bhattacharya, M K ^a   Ramamurthy, T ^a   Ganguly, S ^a   Saha, D R ^a   Rajendran, K ^a   Ghosh, M ^b   Kobayashi, N ^c   Krishnan, T ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHOLERA AND ENTERIC DISEASES   (India)

^b Infectious Diseases and Beliaghata General Hospital   (India)

^c SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diarrhoea; Kolkata; molecular epidemiology; Norwalk agent and related viruses; public health emerging infections; region C; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CALICIVIRUS INFECTION; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOROVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955988346     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268810001731     Document Type: Article

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