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.