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Rotavirus infection in hospitalized children and estimates of disease burden in Kyrgyzstan, 2005-2007.
Vaccine - 20 Nov 2009
Flem Elmira T, Kasymbekova Kaliya T, Vainio Kirsti, Gentsch Jon, Abdikarimov Sabirjan T, Glass Roger I, Bresee Joseph S
Abstract excerpt
To estimate the rotavirus-associated burden in Kyrgyzstan, we conducted hospital surveillance among children <5 years old with diarrhoea during 2005-2007. Of 3756 children hospitalized with diarrhoea, 26% had rotavirus detected in stool samples by an enzyme immunoassay. The virus genotype G1P[8] was identified in 60% of 190 characterized samples from 2005 to 2006. The estimated risk for rotavirus hospitalization...
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