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Prevalence of unusual human rotavirus strains in Ghanaian children.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Jan 2001
Armah G E, Pager C T, Asmah R H, Anto F R, Oduro A R, Binka F, Steele D
Abstract excerpt
Sixty-seven rotavirus-positive fecal samples, collected between January and April 1999, from children with diarrhea in the Upper East Region of Ghana were examined for rotavirus VP7 and VP4 types. Sufficient viral RNA could be obtained from 46 (68.7%) of the samples and all the isolates had short electrophoretic pattern and typed as subgroup I rotaviruses by subgroup ELISA. Three rotavirus strains with G8...
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