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Epidemiology of cocirculating human rotaviruses in Iran.
The Pediatric infectious disease journal - 1 Apr 2013
Shoja Zabihollah, Jalilvand Somayeh, Mokhtari-Azad Talat, Nategh Rakhshandeh
Abstract excerpt
Rotaviruses are a major cause of severe diarrhea in children <5 years of age worldwide. The rotavirus positivity rate in Iran was 15.3% to 67.6% in all patients <5 years of age hospitalized for acute gastroenteritis, which was significantly higher than recorded in outpatient departments. Moreover, the most commonly detected genotype was G1P[8], although in a single study a peak prevalence of the G4P[8] genotype...
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