| Autor: |
R H, Gusmão, J D, Mascarenhas, Y B, Gabbay, A C, Linhares |
| Rok vydání: |
1994 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Journal of diarrhoeal diseases research. 12(2) |
| ISSN: |
0253-8768 |
| Popis: |
An atypical group-A rotavirus strain, with an electrophoretype displaying 5 segments in the first dsRNA size class, was detected among 3 hospitalized children less than 2 years old. Detection occurred initially 24 h after admission in a non-diarrhoeic child hospitalized because of acute respiratory infection. The second detection involved a child who occupied a different room within the same ward and who developed nosocomial diarrhoea 48 h later. A third case, also of hospital-acquired diarrhoea, was recorded in a child who occupied a bed in the same room as the second case and developed gastroenteritis 24 h following the second case's detection. In addition to the unusual, avian-like genomic profile, the strain was classified as serotype 2, based on a human VP7-specific enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The question of whether these events reflect either a genomic rearrangement of a human rotavirus strain or a possible interspecies transmission will be further investigated through hybridization assays. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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