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Emergence of Noroviruses homologous to strains reported from Djibouti (horn of Africa), Brazil, Italy, Japan and USA among children in Kolkata, India.
European review for medical and pharmacological sciences - 1 Sept 2010
Nataraju S M, Ganesh B, Das S, Chowdhury S, Nayak M K, Ghosh M, Chatterjee M K, Sarkar U, Mitra U, Bhattacharya M K, Arora R, Kobayashi N, Krishnan T
Abstract excerpt
AIM: A total of 625 faecal specimens of diarrheic cases (n-313) and non diarrheic controls (n-312), were screened by RT-PCR to detect Noroviruses in children aged below 5 years in Kolkata, India. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Out of the 313 fecal specimens (cases) screened using CDC primer set, 10 (3.19%) showed amplification in reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) for Norovirus. These included 5 of...
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