Detection of the pandemic norovirus variant GII.4 Sydney 2012 in Rio Branco, state of Acre, northern Brazil

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 108, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1068-1070

  da Silva, Luciana Damascena ^a   Rodrigues, Evandro Leite ^a   de Lucena, Maria Silvia Sousa ^a   de Lima, Ian Carlos Gomes ^a   Oliveira, Darleise de Sousa ^a   Soares, Luana Silva ^a   Mascarenhas, Joana D'Arc Pereira ^a   Linhares, Alexandre da Costa ^a   Gabbay, Yvone Benchimol ^a  

^a INSTITUTO EVANDRO CHAGAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Gastroenteritis; GII.4 variant; Norovirus

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ACUTE DISEASE; BRAZIL; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FECES; GASTROENTERITIS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NOROVIRUS; PANDEMIC; PHYLOGENY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIROLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; BRAZIL; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FECES; GASTROENTERITIS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; NOROVIRUS; PANDEMICS; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 84890423368     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: 16788060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130293     Document Type: Article

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