A safe and effective rotavirus vaccine is urgently needed, particularly in developing
countries. Critical to vaccine development and implementation is a knowledge base …

The development of rotavirus vaccines that are based on heterotypic or serotype-specific
immunity has prompted many countries to establish programs to assess the disease burden …

Rotavirus is responsible for more than half a million deaths among infants and young
children worldwide each year; many of these deaths could be prevented by widespread use …

Background Acute diarrhoea is a major cause of childhood morbidity and mortality in sub-
Saharan Africa. Its microbiological causes and clinico-epidemiological aspects were …

Rotavirus infection is associated with 150,000–200,000 deaths annually in Africa. Although
the withdrawal of the RotaShield® vaccine has been a major setback in rotavirus vaccine …

Abstract A total of 62,475 children< 5 years old from a defined population of∼ 500,000
children and adults from slums in New Delhi, India, were assessed for 1 year by means of …

Genotyping of human rotaviruses was performed on 312 rotavirus-positive samples
collected from 2,205 young children with diarrhea in the Upper East District of Ghana, a rural …

Among 1316 rotavirus specimens collected during strain surveillance in the United States
from 1996 to 1999, most strains (95%) belonged to the common types (G1 to G4 and G9) …

ABSTRACT Several G8P [6] and G8P [8] rotavirus strains were isolated from hospitalized
patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2003. To investigate their overall genomic …

ABSTRACT G12 rotavirus has not been detected anywhere in the world since the first
detection of a human strain, L26 (G12, P1B [4]), in the Philippines in 1990. In this study, we …