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Genetic diversity of norovirus among children with gastroenteritis in São Paulo State, Brazil.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Nov 2006
Castilho Juliana Galera, Munford Veridiana, Resque Hugo Reis, Fagundes-Neto Ulysses, Vinjé Jan, Rácz Maria Lúcia
Abstract excerpt
Norovirus (NoV) is one of the most common causes of acute gastroenteritis in children and adults. To study the prevalence and genetic variability of NoV in children with acute gastroenteritis in São Paulo State, Brazil, we examined 234 stool samples from children with or without gastroenteritis during a 5-year period (1995 to 1999). NoV RNA was detected by reverse transcription-PCR and confirmed by DNA sequence...
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