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Article History

Received: 17 August 2022

Accepted: 14 December 2022

First Online: 21 December 2022

Declarations

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: Stool samples were from patients with acute gastroenteritis (AGE) and were sent for genotyping purposes to the Consultant Laboratory for Rotaviruses or to the Consultant Laboratory for Noroviruses at the Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany, by local health authorities, pediatricians, hospitals and diagnostic laboratories for diagnostic clarification. Further investigations using these samples were carried out on the basis of and in accordance with the regulations of Section 13 paragraph 3 of the German Infection Protection Act. The analyses of all patient data were done anonymously and retrospectively. For the reasons explained an ethics committee approval was not required.

: The authors declare no conflict of interest.