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Rotavirus G and P genotypes in rural Ghana.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 May 2001
Asmah R H, Green J, Armah G E, Gallimore C I, Gray J J, Iturriza-Gómara M, Anto F, Oduro A, Binka F N, Brown D W, Cutts F
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An epidemiological study of rotavirus infection was conducted on specimens collected from patients with gastroenteritis and domiciled in the rural Upper Eastern Region of Ghana during 1998. Fifty isolates, randomly selected from 165 human group A rotavirus-positive samples, were G and P characterized by a reverse transcription (RT)-PCR assay using a seminested multiplex method. Rotaviruses of the G3 genotype were...
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