Human Rotavirus G9 and G3 as Major Cause of Diarrhea in Hospitalized Children, Spain

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Sánchez-Fauquier, Alicia ; Montero, Vanessa ; Moreno, Silvia ; Solé, Monica ; Colomina, Javier ; Iturriza-Gomara, Miren ; Revilla, Ana ; Wilhelmi, Isabel ; Gray, Jim
• Corporate Authors:
  Gegavi/VIGESS-Net Group
• Description:
  In Spain, diarrhea remains a major cause of illness among infants and young children. To determine the prevalence of rotavirus genotypes and temporal and geographic differences in strain distribution, a structured surveillance study of hospitalized children <5 years of age with diarrhea was initiated in different regions of Spain during 2005. Rotavirus was detected alone in samples from 362 (55.2%) samples and as a coinfection with other viruses in 41 samples (6.3%). Enteropathogenic bacterial agents were detected in 4.9% of samples; astrovirus and norovirus RNA was detected in 3.2% and 12.0% samples, respectively; and adenovirus antigen was detected in 1.8% samples. Including mixed infections, the most predominant G type was G9 (50.6%), followed by G3 (33.0%) and G1 (20.2%). Infection with multiple rotavirus strains was detected in >11.4% of the samples studied during 2005.
• Subjects:
  Adenovirus Astrovirus Base Sequence Child, Preschool Children Diarrhea Genotypes G Genotypes P Hospitalized Humans Infant Infant, Newborn Norovirus Prevalence Research Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction Rotavirus Rotavirus Infections Spain

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 12(10):1536-1541.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  12
• Issue:
  10
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
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  urn:sha256:5023fda12e108293961077ada54509a7c81ad9dedbbf8557e9b5e838db7ed575
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/16300/cdc_16300_DS1.pdf
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