Molecular Characterization of Rotavirus Strains Circulating in Oman in 2005

Financial support: World Health Organization (grant V27/181/113), Rotavirus Vaccine Program (grant GAV.1142-01-07211-SPS), Norwegian Council for Higher Education (grant PRO 48/2002), Ministry of Health, Oman, and Medical Research Council of South Africa. Presented in part: Virology in Africa Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, November 2005; Second International Congress on Infectious Tropical Diseases, Muscat, Oman, November 2006. Supplement sponsorship: This article is part of a supplement entitled “Rotavirus Infection In Africa: Epidemiology, Burden of Disease, and Strain Diversity,” which was prepared as a project of the Rotavirus Vaccine Program, a partnership among PATH, the World Health Organization, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and was funded in full or in part by the GAVI Alliance. Reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Duncan Steele, 1455 Leary Way NW