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Prevalence and genetic diversity of gastroenteritis viruses in hospitalized children < 5 years of age in Maharashtra state, Western India, 2017-2019.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Aug 2021
Gopalkrishna Varanasi, Joshi Madhuri S, Chavan Nutan A, Shinde Manohar S, Walimbe Atul M, Sawant Pradeep M, Kalrao Vijay R, Dhongade Ram K, Bavdekar Ashish R
Abstract excerpt
Four gastroenteritis viruses were responsible for 54% of the acute gastroenteritis (AGE) cases in children hospitalized between May 2017 and December 2019 in Pune city of Maharashtra state, Western India. The majority (79%) of the children were <2 years of age. The prevalence of Rotavirus A (RVA) was 30.5% followed by 14.3% for norovirus, 8.4% for adenovirus, and 5.5% for astrovirus. The severity of the disease...
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