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Epidemiology and genetic diversity of rotavirus strains in children with acute gastroenteritis in Lahore, Pakistan.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Alam Muhammad Masroor, Khurshid Adnan, Shaukat Shahzad, Suleman Rana Muhammad, Sharif Salmaan, Angez Mehar, Malik Salman Akbar, Ahmed Tahir Masood, Aamir Uzma Bashir, Naeem Muhammad, Zaidi Syed Sohail Zahoor
Abstract excerpt
Pakistan harbors high disease burden of gastro-enteric infections with majority of these caused by rotavirus. Unfortunately, lack of proper surveillance programs and laboratory facilities have resulted in scarcity of available data on rotavirus associated disease burden and epidemiological information in the country. We investigated 1306 stool samples collected over two years (2008-2009) from hospitalized...
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