Determination of a viral load threshold to distinguish symptomatic versus asymptomatic rotavirus infection in a high-disease-Burden African population

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1951-1954

  Bennett, A ^a,b   Bar Zeev, N ^a,b   Jere, K C ^a,b   Tate, J E ^c   Parashar, U D ^c   Nakagomi, O ^d   Heyderman, R S ^a,e   French, N ^b   Iturriza Gomara, M ^b   Cunliffe, N A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ACUTE DIARRHEA; ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; AFRICAN; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROTAVIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; GASTROENTERITIS; GENETICS; INFANT; MALAWI; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; STANDARDS; VIROLOGY;

ROTAVIRUS;

ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTIONS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALAWI; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 84929378808     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00875-15     Document Type: Article

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