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Early impact of rotavirus vaccination in children less than five years of age in Mozambique

Deus, nilsa; Chilaúle, jorfelia José; Cassocera, Marta; Bambo, Miguel; Langa, Jerónimo sozinho; Sitoe, Ezequias; Chissaque, Assecênio; Amapakala, elda; Sambo, Júlia; Guimarães, esperança lourenço; Bero, Diocreciano Matias; Moiane, idalécia cossa; Mwenda, Jason m; Weldegebriel, goito; Parashar, umesh; Tate, Jacqueline.

Vaccine; 36 (47), 2018

Mozambique introduced rotavirus vaccine (Rotarix, GSK Biologicals) in the National Immunization Program in September 2015 with the objective of reducing the burden of total diarrheal disease and specifically severe rotavirus disease. This study aimed to evaluate the early impact of rotavirus vaccine in r...

Diarrhea/prevention & control, Diarrhea/epidemiology, Hospitalization/statistics & numerical data, d0016880, Rotavirus Vaccines/therapeutic use, Vaccination/statistics & numerical data, Acute Disease/epidemiology, Diarrhea/virology, Mozambique/epidemiology, Gastroenteritis/epidemiology, Gastroenteritis/prevention & control, Gastroenteritis/virology

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Rotavirus a strains obtained from children with acute gastroenteritis in mozambique, 2012-2013: g and p genotypes and phylogenetic analysis of vp7 and partial vp4 genes

In Mozambique rotavirus (RV) was shown to be the greatest cause of acute diarrhoea in infants from 0 to 11 months, and in 2015, national rotavirus vaccination was introduced. As with other developing countries, there is very limited active strain characterisation. Rotavirus positive clinical specimens, c...