Emergence of human rotavirus group a genotype G9 strains, Wuhan, China

Emerg Infect Dis. 2007 Oct;13(10):1587-9. doi: 10.3201/eid1310.070142.

Abstract

Of 322 stool specimens collected from children with diarrhea from October 2005 through September 2006 in Wuhan, China, group A rotavirus was identified in 101 (31.4%). The most prevalent group A rotavirus genotype was G3P[8] (62.6%), followed by G1P[8](17.6%), G1+G3P[8](8.8%), G3P[4](6.6%), G1P[4](2.2%), and G9P[8](2.2%). The G9 strains were first detected in Wuhan.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Antigens, Viral / classification
  • Antigens, Viral / genetics*
  • Capsid Proteins / classification
  • Capsid Proteins / genetics*
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • China / epidemiology
  • Communicable Diseases, Emerging / epidemiology*
  • Communicable Diseases, Emerging / virology
  • Dysentery / epidemiology
  • Dysentery / virology*
  • Female
  • Genotype
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Male
  • Phylogeny
  • Prevalence
  • Rotavirus / classification
  • Rotavirus / genetics*
  • Rotavirus Infections / epidemiology
  • Rotavirus Infections / virology*

Substances

  • Antigens, Viral
  • Capsid Proteins
  • VP7 protein, Rotavirus