Detection of noroviruses isolated from children with acute gastroenteritis by Rt-PCR in Iran

Archives of Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 57-60

  Roodsari, Sara Rahmati ^a   Bitajian, Fatemeh ^b   Gachkar, Latif ^a   Jadali, Farzaneh ^b   Adabian, Saadat ^b   Sajadi Nia, Raheleh Sadat ^c   Maham, Saeid ^b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Child; Gastroenteritis; Norovirus; Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892999563     PISSN: 23221828     EISSN: 23221836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5812/pedinfect.7619     Document Type: Article

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