Clinical characteristics of norovirus gastroenteritis among hospitalized children in Japan

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 756-759

  Kawada, Jun Ichi ^a   Arai, Naoko ^a,b   Nishimura, Naoko ^b   Suzuki, Michio ^a,b   Ohta, Rieko ^a   Ozaki, Takao ^b   Ito, Yoshinori ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Welfare Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gastroenteritis; Inpatient; Norovirus; Rotavirus

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ACUTE DIARRHEA; ADENOVIRUS; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; ENTERIC VIRUS; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZED CHILD; HUMAN; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOROVIRUS; NOROVIRUS INFECTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEIZURE; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; VIRAL GASTROENTERITIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VOMITING;

C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, HOSPITALIZED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; MALE; NOROVIRUS; PREVALENCE; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; TIME FACTORS;

NOROVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS;

EID: 84867965961     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: 13480421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2012.00498.x     Document Type: Article

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