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Electrophoretic typing of nosocomial rotavirus infection in a general paediatric unit showing the continual introduction of community strains.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Jun 1993
Steele A D, Mnisi Y N, Williams M M, Bos P, Aspinall S
Abstract excerpt
During 1989 stool specimens from hospitalised children with gastroenteritis at Ga-Rankuwa Hospital in South Africa were examined for the presence of rotaviruses. Overall 16% of the children were positive for rotavirus. However, 43% of the rotavirus positive patients were infected in the hospital. Further characterisation of the rotavirus strains was performed by electrophoresis of the RNA genome and hybridisation...
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