Article
Epidemiology and genetic diversity of group A rotavirus in acute diarrhea patients in pre-vaccination era in southwest China.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Jan 2017
Zhang Shunxian, Yin Jianwen, Yang Jinhui, Tian Liguang, Li Dandi, Zhang Qing, Chen Jiaxu, Xu Wen, Zhou Xiaonong
Abstract excerpt
Group A rotavirus (RVA) is one of the leading cause of acute diarrhea worldwide, the RVA-related disease burden and the genotypes of RVA is important reference to introduce RVA variance to national immunisation programmes, 1,121 diarrhea cases and 319 healthy controls were recruited from four sentinel hospital outpatient from July 2014 to June 2015. The prevalence of RVA was 244 (21.8%) in gastroenteritis cases...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- China
- Diarrhea
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype