Re-emergence of genotype G9 during a five-and-a-half-year period in Turkish children with rotavirus diarrhea

Gulendam Bozdayi; Aylin Altay; Takaaki Yahiro; Sharnali Ahmed; Melda Meral; Bora Dogan; Bedia Dinc; Ayça Yeniaras; Yildiz Dallar Bilge; Kamruddin Ahmed

doi:10.1007/s00705-016-2986-5

Re-emergence of genotype G9 during a five-and-a-half-year period in Turkish children with rotavirus diarrhea

Arch Virol. 2016 Oct;161(10):2879-84. doi: 10.1007/s00705-016-2986-5. Epub 2016 Jul 21.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey.
² Department of Pathobiology and Medical Diagnostics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
³ Department of Microbiology, Alanya State Hospital, Antalya, Turkey.
⁴ Department of Medical Microbiology, T. Yuksek Ihtisas Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
⁵ Department of Pediatrics, Ministry of Health, Ankara Training and Education Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
⁶ Department of Pathobiology and Medical Diagnostics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. ahmed@ums.edu.my.
⁷ Department of Microbiology (Research Promotion Institute), Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu-shi, Oita, Japan. ahmed@ums.edu.my.

PMID: 27444180
DOI: 10.1007/s00705-016-2986-5

Abstract

This study was done to understand the dynamics of rotavirus genotype distribution in Turkish children. Samples were collected from January 2006 through August 2011 from children at a hospital in Ankara. Rotavirus was detected in 28 % (241/889) of the samples. Genotype G9P[8] was predominant (28 %), followed by G1P[8] (16.3 %) and G2P[8] (15.9 %). G9 was absent in the samples from 2006 and 2007 and then re-emerged in 2008 and increased gradually. Phylogenetic analysis showed that Turkish G9 rotaviruses of the present study formed a sublineage with strains from Italy and Ethiopia, possibly indicating spread of a clone in these countries.

Keywords: Children; Genotypes; Prevalence; Rotavirus; Turkey.

MeSH terms

Child, Preschool
Diarrhea / epidemiology*
Diarrhea / virology
Female
Genotype*
Hospitals
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Male
Molecular Epidemiology
Phylogeny
Rotavirus / classification*
Rotavirus / genetics*
Rotavirus / isolation & purification
Rotavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Rotavirus Infections / virology
Turkey / epidemiology