Resurgence and predominance of G3P[8] human rotaviruses in north-central Bangladesh, 2018-2019

R Mazid; M S Aung; S K Paul; F U Ahmad; M Alam; M A Ali; P Nath; S Ahmed; N Haque; M A Hossain; N Kobayashi

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2019.100621

Resurgence and predominance of G3P[8] human rotaviruses in north-central Bangladesh, 2018-2019

New Microbes New Infect. 2019 Nov 26:33:100621. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2019.100621. eCollection 2020 Jan.

Authors

R Mazid¹, M S Aung², S K Paul¹, F U Ahmad¹, M Alam¹, M A Ali¹, P Nath^{1

3}, S Ahmed¹, N Haque¹, M A Hossain⁴, N Kobayashi²

Affiliations

¹ Mymensingh Medical College, Mymensingh, Bangladesh.
² Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.
³ SK Hospital, Mymensingh, Bangladesh.
⁴ Imperial Hospital Limited, Chittagong, Bangladesh.

Abstract

Predominance of genotype G3P[8] rotavirus was revealed for children and adults with diarrhoea in north-central Bangladesh for a 1-year period from September 2018. The G3P[8] rotaviruses were phylogenetically close to recent Indian strains, having antigenic variation in VP7 and VP4 compared with old Bangladeshi strains.

Keywords: Antigenic drift; Bangladesh; G3P[8]; phylogenetic analysis; rotavirus.