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Seroepidemiological study of norovirus infection in Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Shinichi Kobayashi1, Noriko Fujiwara, Naokazu Takeda

  • 1Laboratory of Virology, Department of Microbiology and Medical Zoology, Aichi Prefectural Institute of Public Health, 7-6 Nagare, Tsujimachi, Kita-ku, Nagoya 462-8576, Japan. shinichi_kobayashi@pref.aichi.lg.jp

Microbiology and Immunology
|June 5, 2009
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