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prevalence of unusual human rotavirus strains in ghanaian children.	sixty-seven rotavirus-positive fecal samples, collected between january and april 1999, from children with diarrhea in the upper east region of ghana were examined for rotavirus vp7 and vp4 types. sufficient viral rna could be obtained from 46 (68.7%) of the samples and all the isolates had short electrophoretic pattern and typed as subgroup i rotaviruses by subgroup elisa. three rotavirus strains with g8 specificity were identified for the first time in ghana. g and p typing by pcr identified t ...	2001	11130890
changing patterns of rotavirus genotypes in ghana: emergence of human rotavirus g9 as a major cause of diarrhea in children.	genotyping of human rotaviruses was performed on 312 rotavirus-positive samples collected from 2,205 young children with diarrhea in the upper east district of ghana, a rural community. of the 271 (86.9%) rotavirus strains that could be vp7 (g) or vp4 (p) characterized, 73 (26.9%) were of g9 specificity. the predominant g9 genotype was g9p[8], which constituted 79.5% of all g9 strains detected, followed by g9p[6] (12.3%), g9p[10] (2.7%), and g9p[4] (1.3%). g9 strains with mixed p types constitut ...	2003	12791843