Novel astroviruses in children, Egypt

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2391-2393

  Ahmed, Salwa F ^a   Sebeny, Peter J ^a   Klena, John D ^a   Pimentel, Guillermo ^a   Mansour, Adel ^a   Naguib, Amel M ^b   Bruton, Jody ^a   Young, Sylvia Y N ^a   Holtz, Lori R ^c   Wang, David ^c  

^a US Naval Medical Research Unit No 3 Egypt   (Egypt)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Egypt)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASTROVIRUS; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; DNA SEQUENCE; EGYPT; FECES ANALYSIS; GASTROENTERITIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RNA EXTRACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

EID: 84930475034     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1712.110909     Document Type: Letter

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