Norovirus GII.4/Sydney/2012 in Italy, winter 2012-2013

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1348-1349

  Giammanco, Giovanni M ^a   De Grazia, Simona ^a   Tummolo, Fabio ^a,b   Bonura, Floriana ^a   Calderaro, Adriana ^b   Buonavoglia, Alessio ^c   Martella, Vito ^d   Medici, Maria C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c Università Aldo Moro di Bari ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; GASTROENTERITIS; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; ITALY; LETTER; NOROVIRUS; NOROVIRUS INFECTION; PREVALENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ENTERIC INFECTIONS; GASTROENTERITIS; GENOGROUPS; GII.4; ITALY; NOROVIRUS; SURVEILLANCE; VARIANT SYDNEY 2012; VIRUSES;

CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GASTROENTERITIS; GENES, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; ITALY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NOROVIRUS; PREVALENCE; SEASONS;

EID: 84880712128     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1908.130619     Document Type: Letter

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