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Approach to molecular characterization of partially and completely untyped samples in an Indian rotavirus surveillance program.
Vaccine - 11 Aug 2014
Babji Sudhir, Arumugam Rajesh, Sarvanabhavan Anuradha, Gentsch Jon R, Kang Gagandeep
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Surveillance networks for rotavirus document the burden of the disease using the proportion of children hospitalized with gastroenteritis positive for rotavirus by enzyme immunoassay. They also describe genotypes of circulating viruses by polymerase chain reaction for the VP7 and VP4 genes, which determine G and P types, respectively. A proportion of samples cannot be genotyped based on initial testing and...
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