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. 1986 Mar;35(2):372-5.
doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.1986.35.372.

Epidemiology of rotavirus in Guayaquil, Ecuador

H Suzuki, T Sato, S Kitaoka, F Tazawa, T Konno, Y Amano, A Alava Alprecht, E Gutiérrez Vera, J Lopez Villalta, Y Numazaki, et al.

Epidemiology of rotavirus in Guayaquil, Ecuador

H Suzuki et al. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 1986 Mar.

Abstract

Detection of rotavirus by electron microscopy was conducted with fecal specimens from 1,722 infants and young children with acute diarrhea, during a 41-month survey from April 1978 through December 1981 in Guayaquil, Ecuador; 376 of these specimens (21.8%) were positive. The detection rate was higher during the dry season (May to November; 25.2%) than during the rainy season (December to April; 14.7%). When rotaviruses isolated from 59 patients hospitalized with diarrhea (from April 1979 to July 1981) were subjected to genome RNA analysis by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, a single dominant electropherotype was found with other less common electropherotypes. An atypical rotavirus with a unique property was also found.

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