Detection of a porcine-like rotavirus in a child with enteritis in Italy

J Clin Microbiol. 2008 Oct;46(10):3501-7. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00983-08. Epub 2008 Aug 13.

Abstract

During a 1-year rotavirus surveillance of children hospitalized with acute gastroenteritis in Brescia Hospital, Italy, a chimerical rotavirus strain, G3P[6], was detected, displaying the VP7 and VP4 genes of porcine origin and the NSP4 and VP6 genes of human origin. The reassortant nature of the virus rules out a direct zoonotic event.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Child, Preschool
  • Enteritis / virology*
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Italy
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Phylogeny
  • RNA, Viral / genetics
  • Recombination, Genetic
  • Rotavirus / classification*
  • Rotavirus / genetics
  • Rotavirus / isolation & purification*
  • Rotavirus Infections / virology*
  • Sequence Alignment
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
  • Viral Nonstructural Proteins / genetics
  • Viral Structural Proteins / genetics

Substances

  • RNA, Viral
  • Viral Nonstructural Proteins
  • Viral Structural Proteins

Associated data

  • GENBANK/EU734175
  • GENBANK/EU734176
  • GENBANK/EU734177