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The epidemiology and disease burden of rotavirus in Vietnam: sentinel surveillance at 6 hospitals.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 15 Jun 2001
Nguyen V M, Nguyen V T, Huynh P L, Dang D T, Nguyen T H, Phan V T, Nguyen T L, Le T L, Ivanoff B, Gentsch J R, Glass R I
Abstract excerpt
The disease burden of rotavirus diarrhea in Vietnam was assessed by surveillance of children <5 years old who were hospitalized for diarrhea at 3 centers in the north and 3 centers in the south. Rotavirus was identified in 56% (range, 47%-60%) of the 5768 patients surveyed between July 1998 and June 2000. G-typing of the first 224 strains indicated that only 2% were non-typeable, 9% were in mixed infections, and...
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