Clinical features and molecular epidemiology of rotavirus and norovirus infections in Libyan children

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 83, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1849-1856

  Abugalia, Mohamed ^a,b   Cuevas, Luis ^b   Kirby, Andrew ^c   Dove, Winifred ^c   Nakagomi, Osamu ^c,d   Nakagomi, Toyoko ^c,d   Kara, Majdi ^e   Gweder, Rabia ^e   Smeo, Mohamed ^a   Cunliffe, Nigel ^c  

^a National Center for Disease Control   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

^b LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Al Jala Children's Hospital   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

Author keywords

Gastroenteritis; Genotypes; Libya; Norovirus; Rotavirus

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN VP4; PROTEIN VP7; ROTAVIRUS VACCINE;

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ARTICLE; CALICIVIRUS INFECTION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFANT; LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NOROVIRUS; NOROVIRUS INFECTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTION;

ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIARRHEA; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; LIBYA; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NOROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS;

NOROVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS;

EID: 80051587284     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: 10969071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.22141     Document Type: Article

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