Diversity of rotavirus strains infecting pediatric patients in New Delhi, India.

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Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis (PAGE) of rotavirus can provide information on variation in rotavirus strain prevalent in the community. In the present study 157 samples were collected from children below 5 years of age presenting with acute diarrhoea from May to December, 1990 at Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi. Seventy-one (45 percent) of these stool samples were positive for rotavirus by ELISA. Sixty-seven...

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