Gastroenteritis outbreaks caused by norovirus GII.17, Guangdong Province, China, 2014–2015

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1240-1242

  Lu, Jing ^a,b   Sun, Limei ^a   Fang, Lin ^a   Yang, Feng ^a   Mo, Yanling ^a   Lao, Jiaqian ^a   Zheng, Huanying ^a   Tan, Xiaohua ^a   Lin, Hualiang ^a,b   Rutherford, Shannon ^c   Guo, Lili ^a   Ke, Changwen ^a   Hui, Li ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b Guangdong Provincial Institute of Nephrology   (China)

^c Centre for Environment and Population Health   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRAL GASTROENTERITIS; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIC; GASTROENTERITIS; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENE;

CHINA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GASTROENTERITIS; GENES, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOROVIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84931386196     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2107.150226     Document Type: Article

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