Burden and typing of rotavirus group A in Latin America and the Caribbean: Systematic review and meta-analysis

Reviews in Medical Virology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 89-109

  Linhares, Alexandre C ^a,e   Stupka, Juan A ^b   Ciapponi, Agustín ^c   Bardach, Ariel E ^c   Glujovsky, Demián ^c   Aruj, Patricia K ^c   Mazzoni, Agustina ^c   Rodriguez, Jefferson A Buendía ^c   Rearte, Analía ^c   Lanzieri, Tatiana M ^d   Ortega Barria, Eduardo ^d   Colindres, Romulo ^d  

^a INSTITUTO EVANDRO CHAGAS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ENFERMEDADES INFECCIOSAS   (Argentina)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS AND HEALTH POLICY   (Argentina)

^d Estrada dos Bandeirantes   (Brazil)

^e NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL AMERICA; CIRCULATION; COCHRANE LIBRARY; EMBASE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; RANDOM SAMPLE; REVIEW; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTION; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TYPING; CARIBBEAN; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOLOGY; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PREVALENCE; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; SURVIVAL; VIROLOGY;

ROTAVIRUS VACCINE;

CARIBBEAN REGION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GASTROENTERITIS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LATIN AMERICA; PREVALENCE; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ROTAVIRUS VACCINES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79953064086     PISSN: 10529276     EISSN: 10991654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rmv.682     Document Type: Review

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