Seroepidemiology of group A rotavirus in suburban São Paulo, Brazil
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Seroepidemiology of group A rotavirus in suburban São Paulo, Brazil.
Age-specific patterns of rotavirus infection were investigated using a randomly selected and representative sample of sera from a suburban community of São Paulo, Brazil screened for class-specific antibodies to group A rotavirus. Age-serology of anti-rotavirus IgG showed primary infection predominant in young infants with a median age of around 18 months consistent with IgM serology suggesting...
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عنوان ژورنال: Epidemiology and Infection
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0950-2688,1469-4409
DOI: 10.1017/s0950268898008759