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ArticleThe Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale2013

Group A rotaviruses in children with gastroenteritis in a Canadian pediatric hospital: The prevaccine era.

Estelle Chetrit, Yvan L'homme, Jagdip Singh Sohal, Caroline Quach

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Article in The Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review of global rotavirus strain prevalence data from six years post vaccine licensure surveillance: is there evidence of strain selection from vaccine pressure?Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases · 2014
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Estelle ChetritInfectious Disease Division, Department of Pediatrics and Medical Microbiology, The Montreal Children's Hospital, McGill University, Montreal;
Yvan L'hommeCanadian Food Inspection Agency, St Hyacinthe Laboratory, St Hyacinthe;
Jagdip Singh SohalCanadian Food Inspection Agency, St Hyacinthe Laboratory, St Hyacinthe;
Caroline QuachInfectious Disease Division, Department of Pediatrics and Medical Microbiology, The Montreal Children's Hospital, McGill University, Montreal; ; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.
Canadian Food Inspection Agency · CAMcGill University · CAMontreal Children's Hospital · CA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundA publicly funded, group A rotavirus (RVA) vaccination program was implemented in Quebec in November 2011.

objectivesTo evaluate trends in RVA infections and describe circulating genotypes before the implementation of a publicly funded vaccination program.

methodsThe Montreal Children's Hospital (Montreal, Quebec) virology laboratory database was reviewed for RVA ELISA performed between July 2006 and June 2011. A five-week moving average was used to follow the proportion of positive RVA ELISA test results. A season was defined as starting with the first two and ending with the final two consecutive weeks in which the percentage of specimens testing positive for RVA was ≥10%. Duplicate tests were excluded. A random sample of 39 RVA-positive fecal samples from the final season (2010/2011) was genetically characterized: VP4, VP6, VP7 and NSP4 gene segments were genotyped using sequence analysis.

resultsOf the 3403 nonduplicate tests, 433 were RVA positive: 15.1% (2006/2007) to 9.3% (2010/2011) of the samples were positive during the study period, with a proportionally larger decrease in the percentage of positive tests compared with the decrease in the number of tests performed. The most common RVA strain types detected were G9P[8]I1 (n=19) and G1P[8]I1 (n=14), followed by G2P[4]I2 (n=4), G3P[6]I1 (n=1) and G4P[8]I2 (n=1). Mixed RVA infection was observed in two samples.

conclusionBefore the implementation of the vaccination program, the proportion of positive RVA tests had already begun to steadily decline. The present study was the first to report the genetic makeup of human RVA collected from a Canadian hospital based on the genotyping of four gene segments. The present study provided a baseline with which to monitor the impact of the universal vaccination program.

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EpidemiologyGenotypingRotavirusSequencing

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PMID24421793
PMCPMC3630029
OpenAlexW2287270804

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