Prevalence of Rotavirus Genotypes in Children Younger than 5 Years of Age before the Introduction of a Universal Rotavirus Vaccination Program: Report of Rotavirus Surveillance in Turkey

• Riza Durmaz ,

  * E-mail: rdurmaz@ybu.edu.tr

  Affiliations Molecular Microbiology Research and Applied Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Turkey, Ankara, Turkey, Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Ankara, Turkey

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• Atila Taner Kalaycioglu,

  Affiliation Molecular Microbiology Research and Applied Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Turkey, Ankara, Turkey

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• Sumeyra Acar,

  Affiliation Molecular Microbiology Research and Applied Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Turkey, Ankara, Turkey

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• Zekiye Bakkaloglu,

  Affiliation Molecular Microbiology Research and Applied Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Turkey, Ankara, Turkey

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• Alper Karagoz,

  Affiliation Molecular Microbiology Research and Applied Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Turkey, Ankara, Turkey

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• Gulay Korukluoglu,

  Affiliation Virology Reference Central Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Turkey, Ankara, Turkey

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• Mustafa Ertek,

  Current address: Ministry of Health, Dr. Abdurrahman Yurtaslan Oncology Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

  Affiliation Molecular Microbiology Research and Applied Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Turkey, Ankara, Turkey

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• Mehmet Ali Torunoglu,

  Affiliation Molecular Microbiology Research and Applied Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Turkey, Ankara, Turkey

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• the Turkish Rotavirus Surveillance Network

  ¶Membership of the Turkish Rotavirus Surveillance Network is provided in the Acknowledgments

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