Apropos "Evaluation of third-generation RIDASCREEN enzyme immunoassay for the detection of norovirus antigens in stool samples of hospitalized children in Belém, Pará, Brazil"

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 373-374

  Luchs, Adriana ^a   Morillo, Simone Guadagnucci ^a   Timenetsky, Maria do Carmo Sampaio Tavares ^a  

^a INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAZIL; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; GASTROENTERITIS; HOSPITALIZED CHILD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; FECES; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; NOROVIRUS;

EID: 84858343131     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2011.12.007     Document Type: Letter

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