Rapid detection of a norovirus pseudo-outbreak by using real-time sequence based information

Journal of Clinical Virology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 245-248

  Rahamat Langendoen, J C ^a   Lokate, M ^a   Scholvinck E H ^b   Friedrich, A W ^a   Niesters, H G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Norovirus; Nosocomial infection; Sequence analysis; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; NOROVIRUS INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS DETECTION; WARD;

EID: 84881554784     PISSN: 13866532     EISSN: 18735967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2013.06.034     Document Type: Article

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