Hospital-based surveillance for rotavirus gastroenteritis using molecular testing and immunoassay during the 2011 season in Botswana

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 570-572

  Welch, Henry ^a,b   Steenhoff, Andrew P ^a,b,c   Chakalisa, Unocla ^a   Arscott Mills, Tonya ^a,b,c   Mazhani, Loeto ^c,d   Mokomane, Margaret ^d   Foster Fabiano, Sara ^c   Wirth, Kathleen E ^e,f   Skinn, Andrew ^g   Pernica, Jeffrey M ^h   Smieja, Marek ^h   Goldfarb, David M ^a,c,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Department of HIV AIDS Prevention and Care   (Botswana)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f BOTSWANA HARVARD AIDS INSTITUTE PARTNERSHIP   (Botswana)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^h MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Botswana; Diarrhea; Immunoassay; Polymerase chain reaction; Rotavirus

Indexed keywords

ROTAVIRUS VACCINE;

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ARTICLE; FATALITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOASSAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALNUTRITION; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS GASTROENTERITIS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 85027942689     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e3182847295     Document Type: Article

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