Editorial Commentary: In praise of birth cohorts: Norovirus infection, disease, and immunity

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 492-494

  Lopman, Ben ^a   Kang, Gagandeep ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^b CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

cohort study; immunity; norovirus; rotavirus; vaccines

Indexed keywords

ROTAVIRUS VACCINE; VIRUS LIKE PARTICLE VACCINE;

ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA; INTESTINE INFECTION; MEXICO; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NOROVIRUS INFECTION; NOTE; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTAVIRUS INFECTION; VIRAL GASTROENTERITIS; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CLASSIFICATION; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; NOROVIRUS; PREGNANCY; VIROLOGY;

CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOROVIRUS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84893307039     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cit785     Document Type: Note

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