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Re-assessing the total burden of norovirus circulating in the United Kingdom population

John P Harris1, Miren Iturriza-Gomara1, Sarah J O'Brien1

  • 1National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit (NIHR HPRU) in Gastrointestinal Infections at the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.

Vaccine
|January 18, 2017
PubMed

Keywords:
CalicivirusGastrointestinal infectionsInfectious diseasesNorovirus

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