Article
The epidemiology of norovirus in England : diagnostics, incidence and transmission
2010-01-01
Abstract excerpt
Existing estimates of the incidence of infectious intestinal disease (IID) caused by norovirus in the community are based on electron microscopy or reverse transcription- polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Neither method accurately represents norovirus disease burden: electron microscopy has poor diagnostic sensitivity, RT-PCR has poor diagnostic specificity. In this thesis, for the first time, viral load measure...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 771c9725-0f57-5b2a-a9a1-d14fbb68c3d2
- DOI
- 10.17037/pubs.00682414
