Epidemiology of gastroenteritis viruses in Japan: Prevalence, seasonality, and outbreak

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 551-570

  Thongprachum, Aksara ^a,b   Khamrin, Pattara ^c   Maneekarn, Niwat ^c   Hayakawa, Satoshi ^a   Ushijima, Hiroshi ^a,b  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Faculty of Medicine Chiang Mai University   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Gastroenteritis; Japan; Virus

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DIARRHEA; ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ADENOVIRIDAE; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; ASTROVIRIDAE; EPIDEMIC; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; OPEN READING FRAME; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; ROTAVIRUS; SAPOVIRUS; SEASONAL VARIATION; VIRUS CLASSIFICATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; VIRUS STRAIN; CLASSIFICATION; GASTROENTERITIS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MAMASTROVIRUS; SEASON; VIROLOGY; VIRUS; VIRUS DISEASES;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GASTROENTERITIS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MAMASTROVIRUS; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; VIRUS DISEASES; VIRUSES;

EID: 84955736213     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: 10969071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.24387     Document Type: Article

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