Occurrence of norovirus infections in asymptomatic food handlers in South Korea

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 598-600

  Jeong, Ah Yong ^a   Jeong, Hye Sook ^a   Lee, Jeong Su ^b   Park, Yong Chjun ^b   Lee, Soon Ho ^b   Hwang, In Gyun ^b   Kim, Yun Joo ^c   Kim, Young Joo ^c   Jo, Mi Young ^a   Jung, Sunyoung ^a   Kim, Kisang ^a   Cheon, Doo Sung ^a  

^a Korea National Institute of Health   (South Korea)

^b National Institute of Food and Drug Safety Evaluation   (South Korea)

^c Institute of Public Health and Environmental Research   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; FOOD HANDLER; FOOD HANDLING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NAMED GROUPS BY OCCUPATION; NOROVIRUS; NOROVIRUS INFECTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTH KOREA; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; SUMMER; TAXONOMIC RANK; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WINTER;

CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CAPSID PROTEINS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FOOD HANDLING; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOROVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; SEASONS;

EID: 84873035255     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01856-12     Document Type: Article

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