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A food‐borne outbreak of gastroenteritis due to genotype G1P[8] rotavirus among adolescents in Japan
Author(s) -
Mizukoshi Fuminori,
Kuroda Makoto,
Tsukagoshi Hiroyuki,
Sekizuka Tsuyoshi,
Funatogawa Keiji,
Morita Yukio,
Noda Masahiro,
Katayama Kazuhiko,
Kimura Hirokazu
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
microbiology and immunology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.664
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1348-0421
pISSN - 0385-5600
DOI - 10.1111/1348-0421.12176
Subject(s) - outbreak , rotavirus , genotype , biology , asymptomatic , acute gastroenteritis , environmental health , norovirus , virology , medicine , virus , genetics , gene
Six high school students in Tochigi prefecture, Japan, developed gastroenteritis after eating at a pork cutlet shop. Molecular epidemiologic analyses showed that the causative agent was genotype G1P[8] rotavirus (RV), this being detected in stool samples from both the patients and the asymptomatic food handlers. The detected RV strains were closely related genetically. The only uncooked food that all victims had eaten was raw sliced cabbage. These findings results suggest that uncooked foods contaminated with RV may be sources of infectious gastroenteritis in adolescents.