Open AccessBurden and molecular epidemiology of Rotavirus causing diarrhea among under-five children: A hospital-based study from Eastern India
Author(s) -
Arpit Kumar Shrivastava,
N. Samarasimha Reddy,
Sidhartha Giri,
Priyadarshi Soumyaranjan Sahu,
Mirabai Das,
Nirmal Kumar Mohakud,
Rashmi Ranjan Das
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of global infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 0974-8245
pISSN - 0974-777X
DOI - 10.4103/jgid.jgid_16_19
Subject(s) - genotyping , genotype , rotavirus , epidemiology , diarrhea , medicine , incidence (geometry) , acute gastroenteritis , serology , pediatrics , group a , immunoassay , molecular epidemiology , virology , veterinary medicine , biology , immunology , antibody , genetics , physics , gene , optics
Rotavirus (RVA) causes severe gastroenteritis in under-five children, and there are many diverse strains of the virus that are localized to different parts of the world.