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Seroepidemiology of human group C rotavirus in South Africa
1MRC/Medunsa Diarrhoeal Pathogens Research Unit, Medical University of Southern Africa, Pretoria, South Africa. adsteele@medunsa.ac.za
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|November 24, 1999
Abstract:
Sera from three separate healthy population cohorts were used to determine the incidence of group C rotavirus infections in 1,356 South Africans. Using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay based on a recombinant group C rotavirus VP6 protein, the total percent positivity was found to be 34.4% (range, 33 to 38%), with almost half of the population infected after the age of 20 years.