Prevalence of Norovirus Infection in Children and Adults with Acute Gastroenteritis, Tehran, Iran, 2008-2009

Food and Environmental Virology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-5

  Romani, Sara ^a,b   Mohebbi, Seyed Reza ^a,c   Hosseini, Seyed Masoud ^a,b   Azimzadeh, Pedram ^a   Vahedi, Mohsen ^a   Derakhshan, Faramarz ^a   Zali, Mohammad Reza ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Gastroenteritis; Norovirus; Phylogeny; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; FEVER; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFANT; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOROVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS STRAIN; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CAPSID PROTEINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA PRIMERS; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOROVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; YOUNG ADULT;

CALICIVIRIDAE; MIRIDAE; NOROVIRUS;

EID: 84857609607     PISSN: 18670334     EISSN: 18670342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12560-011-9071-8     Document Type: Article

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