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Detection of unusual strains of RV in patients with acute diarrhoea in Mexico.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 Apr 2005
del R González-Losa Maria, Rodríguez-Angulo Elsa, Manzano-Cabrera Luis, Mejía-Cámara Javier, Puerto-Solís Marylin
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Group A rotaviruses are a major cause of acute gastroenteritis in infants. Human strains with a short RNA pattern generally exhibit subgroup I, G2, P1B[4] specificity, those with a long RNA pattern show subgroup II, G1, G3 or G4, P1A[8] specificity. The presence of strains with unusual specificities has been reported worldwide over the last decade. OBJECTIVE: To determine antigenic diversity among...
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