Epidemiology and burden of rotavirus infection among young 1 children with acute diarrhoea in Burkina Faso
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Epidemiology and burden of rotavirus infection among young 1 children with acute diarrhoea in Burkina Faso 2 3 Isidore JO Bonkoungou*, Idrissa Sanou, Fabienne Bon, Benoit Benon, Sheick O Coulibaly, Kaisa 4 Haukka, Alfred S Traoré, Nicolas Barro 5 6 Laboratoire de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire, CRSBAN/UFR-SVT, Université de Ouagadougou, 03 BP 7 7021, Burkina Faso 8 Laboratoire National de Santé Publique, 09 BP 24 Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso 9 Laboratoire de Bactériologie et Virologie du CHU-Yalgado Ouédraogo , 03 BP 7022 Ouagadougou, 10 Burkina Faso 11 UFR Sciences de la Santé, Université de Ouagadougou, 03 BP 7021, Burkina Faso. 12 Laboratoire Interactions Muqueuses-Agents Transmissibles-UFR Médecine, 21079 Dijon, France 13 Service de pédiatrie, centre médical du secteur 30 de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso 14 Department of Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, National Institute for Health and 15 Welfare, Box 30, 00271Helsinki, Finland 16 17 *Corresponding author 18 Email addresses: 19
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تاریخ انتشار 2010