Article
Acute norovirus gastroenteritis in children in a highly rotavirus-vaccinated population in Northeast Brazil.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 Mar 2017
Santos Victor S, Gurgel Ricardo Q, Cavalcante Sandra M M, Kirby Andrew, Café Lilian P, Souto Maria J, Dolabella Silvio S, de Assis Matheus R, Fumian Tulio M, Miagostovich Marize P, Cunliffe Nigel A, Cuevas Luis E
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Gastroenteritis is one of the most important causes of morbidity and mortality in children and an important etiological agent is norovirus. OBJECTIVE: We describe the occurrence and characteristics of norovirus diarrhoea in children from Sergipe, Northeast-Brazil, over two consecutive periods of three years following rotavirus vaccine introduction. STUDY DESIGN: A cross sectional hospital-based survey...
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