Citation
A. Sen et al., The evolution of human group B rotaviruses, LANCET, 357(9251), 2001, pp. 198-199
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
General & Internal Medicine","Medical Research General Topics
Journal title
LANCET
ISSN journal
01406736
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Volume
357
Issue
9251
Year of publication
2001
Pages
198 - 199
Database
ISI
SICI code
0140-6736(20010120)357:9251<198:TEOHGB>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
The largest reported rotavirus epidemic affected well over a million people
in China during 1982-83 and was caused by the adult diarrhoea rotavirus (A
DRV), a serogroup B rotavirus. However, ADRV has not been reported outside
China since the last recorded small outbreak there In 1987. Here we present
evidence that offers an explanation for the sudden appearance and disappea
rance of the epidemic ADRV strain.