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Data mining from a 27-years rotavirus surveillance in Palermo, Italy.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Dec 2014
De Grazia Simona, Bonura Floriana, Colomba Claudia, Cascio Antonio, Di Bernardo Francesca, Collura Antonina, Terranova Diane M, Martella Vito, Giammanco Giovanni M
Abstract excerpt
Uninterrupted surveillance conducted in Palermo, Sicily, for 27 years (1985-2012) detected rotavirus infection in 32.7% of 6522 children <5 years of age, hospitalised at the "G. Di Cristina" Children's Hospital of Palermo. Increased rotavirus activity usually occurred from the beginning of winter to mid-spring. G1P[8] rotaviruses were the prevalent strains in most of the years and were only occasionally overcome...
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