Detection of group A rotavirus RNA and antigens in serum and cerebrospinal fluid from two children with clinically mild encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 204-207

  Arakawa, Chikako ^a   Fujita, Yukihiko ^a   Imai, Yuki ^a   Ishii, Wakako ^a   Kohira, Ryutaro ^a   Fuchigami, Tatsuo ^a   Mugishima, Hideo ^a   Izumi, Hiroyuki ^b   Kuzuya, Mitsutaka ^c  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Itabashi Medical Association Hospital   (Japan)

^c Okayama Prefectural Institute for Environmental Science and Public Health   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN VP7; VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS RNA;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; GROUP A ROTAVIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN ROTAVIRUS; HYPONATREMIA; MALE; MILD ENCEPHALOPATHY WITH A REVERSIBLE SPLENIAL LESION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROTAVIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENE; VOMITING; VP7 GENE;

ANTIGENS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; BRAIN; CAPSID PROTEINS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; HUMANS; MALE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; SERUM;

EID: 79958061226     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: 18842836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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