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Epidemiology of rotavirus and astrovirus infections in children in northwestern Nigeria.

Annals of African medicine - 1 Dec 2008

Aminu M, Esona M D, Geyer A, Steele A D

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BACKGROUND: Recent estimates attribute 527,000 deaths in children less than five years of age to rotavirus diarrhea annually, with 145,000 occurring in sub-Saharan Africa. Human astroviruses have been identified as one of the most frequent causes of infantile diarrhea, second in incidence only to...

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PMID: 19623918
DOI: 10.4103/1596-3519.55658

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