Article
[Norovirus infections].
Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica - 1 Jan 2010
Fernández Juan Manuel Ribes, Gómez Javier Buesa
Abstract excerpt
Noroviruses infect persons of all ages, often causing epidemic outbreaks of acute gastroenteritis as well as sporadic cases. The application of novel molecular methods to the diagnosis of norovirus infections is now revealing their real impact. Molecular epidemiology studies have identified the most common viral genotypes responsible for human infections. Norovirus gastroenteritis is usually mild and of short...
Topics
- Aged
- Antigens, Viral
- Caliciviridae Infections
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Diarrhea, Infantile
- Disease Outbreaks
- Disease Susceptibility
- Enterocytes
- Evolution, Molecular
- Gastroenteritis
- Genotype