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Surveillance of rotavirus strains in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 1997 to 1999.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jul 2003
Santos Norma, Soares Caroline C, Volotão Eduardo M, Albuquerque Maria Carolina M, Hoshino Yasutaka
Abstract excerpt
One hundred fifty-seven (23%; n = 678) rotavirus-positive stool samples were collected between March 1997 and December 1999 in the cites of Rio de Janeiro and Niterói. Rotaviruses in 143 (91%) samples were genotyped by reverse transcription-PCR for G and/or P specificity. Rotaviruses in the majority of G-P-typeable samples (73.3%; 74 of 101) were identified as having globally common genotypes G1P[8], G2P[4],...
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