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Genetic Diversity of Human Rotavirus A Among Hospitalized Children Under-5 Years in Lebanon.
Frontiers in immunology - 1 Jan 2020
Harastani Houda H, Reslan Lina, Sabra Ahmad, Ali Zainab, Hammadi Moza, Ghanem Soha, Hajar Farah, Matar Ghassan M, Dbaibo Ghassan S, Zaraket Hassan
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Human rotavirus remains a major cause of gastroenteritis worldwide despite the availability of effective vaccines. In this study, we investigated the genetic diversity of rotaviruses circulating in Lebanon. We genetically characterized the VP4 and VP7 genes encoding the outer capsid proteins of 132 rotavirus-associated gastroenteritis specimens, previously identified in hospitalized children (<5 years) from 2011...
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