Anticipating rotavirus vaccines in Brazil: Detection and molecular characterization of emerging rotavirus serotypes G8 and G9 among children with diarrhoea in Recife, Brazil

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 335-340

  Montenegro, Fernanda M U ^a   Correia, Jailson B ^a   Falbo, Ana Rodrigues ^a   Dove, Winifred ^b   Nakagomi, Toyoko ^b,c   Nakagomi, Osamu ^b,c   Cuevas, Luis E ^d   Cunliffe, Nigel A ^b   Hart, C Anthony ^b  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diarrhoeal disease; Electropherotypes; Genogroups; Genotypes; Rotavirus

Indexed keywords

LIVE VACCINE; ROTAVIRUS VACCINE;

ACUTE DIARRHEA; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FECES; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INDIA; MALAWI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS G8; ROTAVIRUS G9; SEROTYPE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS STRAIN;

BRAZIL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; FECES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PREVALENCE; RNA, VIRAL; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ROTAVIRUS VACCINES; SEROTYPING;

HUMAN ROTAVIRUS A; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS A;

EID: 33846804081     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: 10969071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.20803     Document Type: Article

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