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Rotavirus genotypes circulating in Brazil before national rotavirus vaccination: a review.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 Sept 2008
Gurgel Ricardo Q, Cunliffe Nigel A, Nakagomi Osamu, Cuevas Luis E
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Rotavirus vaccine was recently introduced in Brazil, which has the potential to greatly reduce childhood deaths from diarrhoea. To provide baseline data to assess the effect of mass rotavirus vaccination on the ecology of circulating rotavirus strains, we systematically analysed published studies in the pre-vaccine era. AIMS: To describe the distribution of rotavirus genotypes in Brazil prior to...
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