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Detection and Typing of Human Rotavirus in Reference to Repeated Acute Gastroenteritis in Infants
Author(s) -
Imamura Yoshihiro,
Hamada Nobuyuki,
Nagai Takayuki,
Shingu Masahisa
Publication year - 1994
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/j.1348-0421.1994.tb01839.x
Subject(s) - rotavirus , acute gastroenteritis , typing , pediatrics , medicine , virology , reoviridae , diarrhea , biology , microbiology and biotechnology
Stool specimens from infants who visited a clinic because of acute gastroenteritis were tested for the presence of human rotavirus. Among the samples obtained were specimens taken from seven patients who had visited the clinic at two different times. In six of these seven children, human rotavirus (HRV) was detected in only one of the specimens taken (i.e. during only one of the two visits). One patient was shown to have excreted HRV twice; in both cases the HRV was serotyped to be type 1. The present results indicate that the symptomatic reinfection of HRV was not a widely occurring phenomenon in the group of infants tested.