Electrophoretic study of the genome of human rotavirus from Maceió, Brazil.

Autor: Houly CA, Uchoa MM, Zaidan AM, Gomes-Neto A, de-Oliveira FM, Athayde MA, Almeida MF, Pereira HG
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologicas [Braz J Med Biol Res] 1986; Vol. 19 (1), pp. 33-7.
Abstrakt: Rotaviruses were detected by enzyme immunoassay (EIA) in 53 (13.3%) of 397 fecal samples from children with acute gastroenteritis in the city of Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoretic (PAGE) patterns characteristic of rotavirus double-stranded RNA were detected in 51 (96.2%) of the 53 EIA-positive samples. Of the RNA-positive samples, 1 (2%) was classified as subgroup 1 (short profile), 49 (96%) as subgroup 2 (long profile) and 1 (2%) could not be classified because of the absence of bands 10 and 11. The strains of subgroup 2 showed a great degree of electrophoretic heterogeneity and could be divided into several subcategories. Two samples showed splitting of one of the genome segments. PAGE, a very sensitive method capable of identifying rotavirus RNA genomes, has demonstrated that human rotaviruses detected in Maceió present many differences in RNA electrophoretic patterns.
Databáze: MEDLINE