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A multicenter prospective hospital-based surveillance to estimate the burden of rotavirus gastroenteritis in children less than five years of age in India.
Vaccine - 11 Aug 2014
Saluja T, Sharma S D, Gupta M, Kundu R, Kar S, Dutta A, Silveira M, Singh J V, Kamath V G, Chaudhary A, Rao J V, Ravi M D, Murthy S R K, Babji S, Prasad R, Gujjula R, Rao R, Dhingra M S
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BACKGROUND: Rotavirus is the leading cause of severe, dehydrating diarrhea in children aged <5 years globally, with an estimated 25 million outpatient visits and 2 million hospitalizations attributable to rotavirus infections each year. The aim of this hospital-based surveillance was to summarize the local epidemiological and virological features of rotavirus and to estimate the disease burden in the population...
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