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surveillance and epidemiological studies to understand the impact of local strains and improve the current controlmeasures 9-11 . It is also essential to identify the strains and compare them with others from different countries tounderstand the molecular epidemiology and design appropriate measures. Thus, this study reviews the mostrelevant information on RVA infection in Mozambique.

METHODS We used Google Scholar, Scinapse, Scilit, PubMed, Scielo, and Microsoft Academic to find the leading scientificpublications related to Mozambique's RVA to write this manuscript. The leading search keywords were "rotavirus"and "Mozambique." We selected scholarly documents with keywords or related in the title. In some cases, the titlespresented Mozambique's districts or provinces' names, and some of the documents were about Rotavirus and otherdiarrheic diseases.We found 20 peer-reviewed journal articles, three official reports, eight abstracts from national conferences,and one thesis through the search. We added other elements such as the map and figure as we reviewed theprimary sources.We analyzed the documents using the qualitative data analysis software Atlas.ti 9 (Atlas.ti Scientific SoftwareDevelopment GmbH, Berlin, 2020), using the codes "etiology," "transmission," "geographical distribution,""susceptible groups," "vaccination," "impact, surveillance, treatment," and "infrastructure." Then, we summarizedthe data into a coherent text, using other sources from the literature to provide more consistency to the text.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONGeographical distribution First, it is essential to make a brief description of Mozambique (Map 1) so that anyone can easily understandhow spread RVA is in Mozambique according to the current scholarly information. It is a tropical country with801,590 km 2 , located in Southeastern Africa, divided into eleven provinces, with an eastern coastline (Indian Ocean)from north to south. According to the last census (2017) 12 , the population comprises 27,909,798 inhabitants,significantly below poverty. Diarrheic diseases are common and reported as the fourth major cause of mortality inchildren aged five years or less 2 .

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Map 1 - Mozambique, the country's regions, and cities. United Nations 16, under public domain

Rotavirus is highly prevalent among < 5-year old children in Mozambique 13 . Thus, non-surprisingly, there havebeen reports from different country areas. de Deus et al. 14 mentioned six surveillance sites from the NationalSurveillance of Diarrhea (ViNaDia): Hospital Geral José Macamo, Hospital Geral de Mavalane and Hospital Centralde Maputo (Maputo City), Hospital Geral de Quelimane ( Zambézia Province ), Hospital Central da Beira (Sofala

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