The molecular epidemiology of circulating rotaviruses: Three-year surveillance in the region of Monastir, Tunisia

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Hassine Zaafrane, Mouna ^a,b   Sdiri Loulizi, Khira ^a,b   Salem, Imen B ^a   Kaplon, Jérôme ^b   Ayouni, Siwar ^a   Ambert Balay, Katia ^b   Sakly, Nabil ^c   Pothier, Pierre ^b   Aouni, Mahjoub ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^c FATTOUMA BOURGUIBA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; ROTAVIRUS VACCINE; PRIMER DNA; VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS RNA;

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SUMMER; TUNISIA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VIRUS STRAIN; WINTER; CLASSIFICATION; FECES; GASTROENTERITIS; GENETICS; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIROLOGY;

ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CAPSID PROTEINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA PRIMERS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; TUNISIA;

EID: 80053436105     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-11-266     Document Type: Article

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