The changing seroepidemiology of enterovirus 71 infection among children and adolescents in Singapore

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Ang, Li W ^a   Phoon, Meng C ^b   Wu, Yan ^b   Cutter, Jeffery ^a   James, Lyn ^a   Chow, Vincent T ^b  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTEROVIRUS 71 ANTIBODY; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROVIRUS 71; ENTEROVIRUS 71 INFECTION; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICRONEUTRALIZATION TEST; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROCONVERSION; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SINGAPORE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BLOOD; ENTEROVIRUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HAND FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SERODIAGNOSIS; VIROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTIBODIES, NEUTRALIZING; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENTEROVIRUS A, HUMAN; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HAND, FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SINGAPORE;

EID: 80053627857     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-11-270     Document Type: Article

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