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Rotavirus strain surveillance--an Australian perspective of strains causing disease in hospitalised children from 1997 to 2007.
Vaccine - 20 Nov 2009
Kirkwood Carl D, Boniface Karen, Bogdanovic-Sakran Nada, Masendycz Paul, Barnes Graeme L, Bishop Ruth F
Abstract excerpt
This study documents rotavirus strains causing severe disease in Australian children during the pre-vaccine era. During the period 1997-2007, rotavirus strains from national multi-centre hospital-based surveillance in Australia were analysed for G and P types. G1P[8] was the dominant genotype identified during the 11-year study, with intermittent peaks associated with genotypes G2P[4], G3P[8] and G9P[8]. The...
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