Jordan Cates, Helen Powell, James Platts-Mills, Dilruba Nasrin, Sandra Panchalingam, Samba O Sow, Awa Traore, Dipika Sur, Thandavarayan Ramamurthy, Anita K M Zaidi, Furqan Kabir, Abu S G Faruque, Dilruba Ahmed, Robert F Breiman, Richard Omore, John Benjamin Ochieng, M Jahangir Hossain, Martin Antonio, Inácio Mandomando, Delfino Vubil, James P Nataro, Myron M Levine, Umesh D Parashar, Karen L Kotloff, Jacqueline E Tate
BACKGROUND: Quantitative molecular assays are increasingly used for detection of enteric viruses. METHODS: We compared the clinical severity using modified Vesikari score (mVS) of enteric viruses detected by conventional assays (enzyme immunoassays [EIA] for rotavirus and adenovirus 40/41 and conventional polymerase chain reaction for astrovirus, sapovirus, and norovirus) and a quantitative molecular assay (TaqMan Array Card [TAC]) among children aged 0-59 months in the Global Enteric Multicenter Study...
April 18, 2024: Journal of Infectious Diseases