Acknowledgements:
We thank the children and their families for participating in this
study. We gratefully acknowledge all APPETITE investigators, study
nurses and staff members for contributing to this study. We are grateful
to Dr. Michael Bowen and Dr. Jan Vinjé at the viral gastroenteritis
branch, DVD, NCIRD, CDC for providing us the Illumina based rotavirus
whole genome sequencing protocol via personal communication and
critically reading the manuscript. We thank Colin Lloyd and Theodore
Chiu at Alberta Public Health Laboratory, Alberta Precision Laboratories
for their bioinformatic and Illumina sequencing technical support.