An atypical rotavirus detected in a child with gastroenteritis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Particles morphologically identical to rotaviruses were found in the faeces of a nine week-old child with gastroenteritis. Analysis of the viral RNA genome by polyacrylamine gel electrophoresis revealed 10 bands (probably 11 segments) some of wich differed in migration rate from those of the great majority of rotaviruses infecting man and other animal hosts. The virus was not detected by a highly sensitive enzyme immunoassay (ELISA) and therefore probably lacked the crossreactive antigen(s) shared by the majority rotaviruses. This was the only strain with such behaviour among 230 rotaviruses of human origin examined in this laboratory since 1979. The implications of the existence of non-crossreactive rotaviruses are discussed.

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Main Authors: Pereira,H. G., Leite,J. P. G., Azeredto,R. S., Farias,Vivian de, Sutmoller,Frits
Format: Digital revista
Language:English
Published: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde 1983
Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02761983000300002
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