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Emergence of human rotavirus genotype G9 in metropolitan Detroit between 2007 and 2009.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Jun 2011
Abdel-Haq Nahed, Amjad Muhammad, McGrath Eric, Chearskul Pimpanada, Amer Ahdi, Salimnia Hossein, Asmar Basim I
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Between January 2007 and April 2009, rotavirus (RV)-positive stool samples from 238 children with acute gastroenteritis, seen at Children's Hospital of Michigan in Detroit, USA, were collected and RV genotyping was performed. G and P genotypes were determined by RT-PCR and nucleotide sequencing was conducted on selected G9 and P[6] strains. Correlation between the severity of gastroenteritis episode and the...
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