Noroviruses as a major cause of acute gastroenteritis in children in Finland, 2009-2010

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 804-808

  Puustinen, Leena ^a   Blazevic, Vesna ^a   Salminen, Marjo ^a   Hämäläinen, Minna ^a   Räsänen, Sirpa ^a,b   Vesikari, Timo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Acute gastroenteritis; Children; Norovirus; Rotavirus; Rotavirus vaccine

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; FECES ANALYSIS; FINLAND; HOSPITALIZED CHILD; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NOROVIRUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTION; SAPOVIRUS; SCHOOL CHILD; VIRAL GASTROENTERITIS; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VIRUS STRAIN;

ADOLESCENT; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FECES; FINLAND; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; INFANT; NOROVIRUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ROTAVIRUS VACCINES; SEASONS;

EID: 80052497876     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365548.2011.588610     Document Type: Article

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