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Diversity of rotavirus strains circulating in Northern Brazil after introduction of a rotavirus vaccine: high prevalence of G3P[6] genotype.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Jun 2014
da Silva Soares Luana, de Fátima Dos Santos Guerra Sylvia, do Socorro Lima de Oliveira Alessilva, da Silva Dos Santos Fabiola, de Fátima Costa de Menezes Euzeni Maria, Mascarenhas Joana d'Arc Pereira, Linhares Alexandre C
Abstract excerpt
Rotavirus A (RVA) is the most common cause of severe acute gastroenteritis in infants and young children worldwide, causing 453,000 deaths annually. In Brazil, the most frequent genotype identified was G1 during almost three decades in the pre-vaccination period; however, after anti-rotavirus vaccine introduction, there was a predominance of G2 genotype. The aim of this study was to determine the G and P...
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