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[Molecular epidemiology of rotaviruses circulating among residents of St. Petersburg from 1986 through 1991].
Voprosy virusologii - 1 Jan 2000
Vasil'ev B Ia, Moskvin A A, Semenov N V, Grits'ko R Iu, Marchenko L G, Bannikov A I
Abstract excerpt
The results of screening of 510 patients with acute gastrointestinal diseases over the period of 1986 to 1991 are presented. Rotaviruses were shown to be the infection agents in 112 (60%) children and 76 (40%) adults. The phoretyping of the isolated strains revealed cocirculation of 17 different phoretypes of rotaviruses: 8 "long" and 9 "short" ones. At the same time, two predominant phoretypes were found to...
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