RESEARCH ARTICLE
Changing Epidemiology of Rotavirus-Related Hospitalizations in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, from 2002 to 2006
Vera S Gouvea*, 1, André L.S Domingues1, #, Felipe G Naveca1, Adriana R Pedro1, César C Bevilacqua2
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2007Volume: 1
First Page: 47
Last Page: 50
Publisher Id: TOVJ-1-47
DOI: 10.2174/1874357900701010047
Article History:
Received Date: 20/11/2007Revision Received Date: 3/12/2007
Acceptance Date: 14/12/2007
Electronic publication date: 31/12/2007
Collection year: 2007
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/), which permits unrestrictive use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
A prospective hospital-based sentinel study conducted in Rio de Janeiro identified a shift in the pattern (long to short electropherotype and P(8) to P(4) genotype) of rotavirus strains recovered from children with severe diarrhea a few months after the far-reaching Brazilian rotavirus immunization program was launched, posing new interesting challenges.