Article
Detection and characterization of novel rotavirus strains in the United States.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Nov 1998
Ramachandran M, Gentsch J R, Parashar U D, Jin S, Woods P A, Holmes J L, Kirkwood C D, Bishop R F, Greenberg H B, Urasawa S, Gerna G, Coulson B S, Taniguchi K, Bresee J S, Glass R I
Abstract excerpt
We recently established a rotavirus strain surveillance system in the United States to monitor the prevalent G serotypes before and after the anticipated implementation of a vaccination program against rotavirus and to identify the emergence of uncommon strains. In this study, we examined 348 rot...
Topics
- Antibodies, Monoclonal
- Antibodies, Viral
- Base Sequence
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- DNA Primers
- Diarrhea
- Genotype
- Humans
- Infant
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nucleic Acid Hybridization
- RNA, Viral