Emergence of Norovirus GII/4 2006a and 2006b variants in hospitalized children with acute gastroenteritis in Thailand

Clinical Laboratory

Volumn 59, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 271-276

  Thongprachum, Aksara ^a,b   Khamrin, Pattara ^c   Chan It, Wisoot ^a   Malasao, Rungnapa ^c   Chaimongkol, Natthawan ^c   Okitsu, Shoko ^a,b   Mizuguchi, Masashi ^a   Maneekarn, Niwat ^c   Hayakawa, Satoshi ^b   Ushijima, Hiroshi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Faculty of Medicine Chiang Mai University   (Thailand)

Author keywords

2006b variant; Gastroenteritis; Norovirus; Thailand

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIARRHEA; FECES CULTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALIZED CHILD; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NOROVIRUS; NOROVIRUS INFECTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THAILAND; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS STRAIN;

CHILD; FECES; GASTROENTERITIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; NOROVIRUS; THAILAND;

NOROVIRUS;

EID: 84876516110     PISSN: 14336510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7754/Clin.Lab.2012.120316     Document Type: Article

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