Rotavirus Seasonality and Age Effects in a Birth Cohort Study of Southern India

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Sarkar, Rajiv ^a   Kang, Gagandeep ^a   Naumova, Elena N ^a,b  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN ROTAVIRUS; HUMIDITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INCIDENCE; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; ROTAVIRUS INFECTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WINTER;

AGE FACTORS; BANGLADESH; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; DIARRHEA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; PARTURITION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; SEASONS;

EID: 84881570257     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071616     Document Type: Article

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